"The largest of Hokusai's works is the 15 volume collection Hokusai Manga, a book crammed with nearly 4,000 sketches that was published in 1814. These sketches are often incorrectly considered the precedent to modern manga, as Hokusai's Manga is a collection of sketches (of animals, people, objects, etc.), different from the story-based comic-book style of modern manga" (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).

Первые 5 томов из знаменитой серии «Хокусай манга» - «Книги набросков Хокусая» - где мастер представил зарисовки людей, бытовых сценок, архитектурных деталей, пейзажей, деревьев, гор, цветов, животных, птиц и насекомых.