Title: Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things: Hokusai Sketchbooks, first volume (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, shohen)
Object type: Illustrated book
Date: after 1828
Culture: Japan
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Artist:  Katsushika Hokusai 
Artist bio: Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1760–1849 Tokyo (Edo)
Artist nationality: Japanese
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Overall: 9 × 6 1/4 × 3/8 in. (22.9 × 15.9 × 1 cm)
Classification: Illustrated Books
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1931
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY