234 pages
Nearly 200 years after Hokusai finished the drawings for this illustrated book, these works are finally being published for the first time – thanks to a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Rediscovered in an old box in the storage rooms of the museum, these Hokusai drawings should have been used to create the woodblocks for printing a continuation of his Manga series. But although scholars have found an advertisement announcing the title, there is no record of the book ever having been produced. Instead, presumably after the decision was made not to publish the book, the drawings were folded and bound together. And so they stayed for nearly two centuries.
Hokusai’s Lost Manga includes the lively, behind-the-scenes sketches of daily life,appearances by sea creatures, refined flowers, heroes and a variety of craftspeople and laborers. The book also includes an especially interesting series of fabulous astrological deities may reflect Hokusai’s practice of Nichiren Buddhism and his devotion to the Bodhisattva Myōken.
(2017)
234 pages
Nearly 200 years after Hokusai finished the drawings for this illustrated book, these works are finally being published for the first time – thanks to a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Rediscovered in an old box in the storage rooms of the museum, these Hokusai drawings should have been used to create the woodblocks for printing a continuation of his Manga series. But although scholars have found an advertisement announcing the title, there is no record of the book ever having been produced. Instead, presumably after the decision was made not to publish the book, the drawings were folded and bound together. And so they stayed for nearly two centuries.
Hokusai’s Lost Manga includes the lively, behind-the-scenes sketches of daily life,appearances by sea creatures, refined flowers, heroes and a variety of craftspeople and laborers. The book also includes an especially interesting series of fabulous astrological deities may reflect Hokusai’s practice of Nichiren Buddhism and his devotion to the Bodhisattva Myōken.
(2017)
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