Transmitting the Spirit and Revealing the Form of Things
Date:
1814-1878
Medium:
Ink on paper
Dimensions:
Leaves: 8 1/4 x 11 11/16 inches (21.01 x 29.69 cm)
Credit Line:
Collection of the Princeton University
Object number:
J_2019-09.16
When we hear the word “manga” today, we think of graphic novels: stories that are dramatically narrated through pictures, often in a comic book-like format. The literal meaning of the term manga (漫画) in Japanese, however, is “curious” or “whimsical drawings,” and this was the 19th century understanding of the word when Hokusai’s first volume of drawings, commonly known as Hokusai manga, was published in 1814.
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