HOKUSAI MANGA - NUOVA EDIZIONE

For the first time in Italy, the Manga of Hokusai, best sellers of the Edo period, are published in co-edition with the prestigious Pie Books of Tokyo, with a bilingual Italian-Japanese text. A single massive volume (700 pages) gathers the cream of the 4000 prints, pulled on wooden matrices, that the genius of the Rising Sun and inventor of Manga executed between 1814 and 1878 by grouping them into fifteen volumes: the Sistine Chapel of ukiyo-e! Initially intended to be a drawing manual for his students, Hokusai's Manga depict the life of common people, animals, plants, landscapes, and human figures, as well as the inevitable demons and monsters of Japanese folklore. A visual encyclopedia of the floating world...