The lost sequel to Hokusai's famous Manga series presented as a standalone volume for the first time.
Sarah E. Thompson is Assistant Curator for Japanese Prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Hokusai’s Lost Manga includes...a short note explaining each
drawing and situating it in the context of early-19th-century
Japanese art. From these we discover a wealth of obscure
trivia.
*Artistsreview*
Tucked away in a storage room at the Museum of Fine Arts, a
collection of Hokusai’s drawings was recently unearthed and has
been published for the first time. Hokusai’s Lost Manga... The
handsome volume includes dozens of lively, lovely images,
showcasing Hokusai’s skill at capturing movement, in swirling
garments, in water, in wind, in bodies in motion at work, spinning
pots on a wheel, making paper, washing a horse, trekking up a
hill.
*The Boston Globe*
The detail throughout is thoroughly wonderful.
*Philadelphia Enquirer*
The volume of tasty morsels remained unpublished-until now. The
cover displays a partially clothed abalone-diver swooping down on
her prey with a knife between her teeth. She seems just the right
official greeter for Hokusai's incisive art.
*The New York Review of Books*
...highlights how driven Hokusai was to record his surroundings, no
matter how quotidian; his 'tasty morsels' offer a comprehensive
view of Japanese life at the time, from the people to the
architecture to religious and cultural customs.
*Hyperallergic*
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