-Hanshū Sanjin on the preface to the first volume of the ‘Hokusai Manga’ c.1814
Katsushika Hokusai’s ‘Hokusai Manga: Volume 12’ c.1814
Hokusai Manga, 1814
“This autumn the master [Hokusai] happened to visit the Western Province and stopped over at our city [Nagoya]. We all met together with the painter Gekkōtei Bokusen (月光亭墨僊?) [Utamasa II, well-known Nagoya artist, pupil of Hokusai’s, and collator of Hokusai’s later work] at the latter’s residence, it being a very joyous occasion. And there over three hundred sketches of all kinds were made – from immortals, Buddhas, scholars, and women on down to birds, beasts, grasses, and trees, the spirit of each captured fully by the brush.”