Visipix has constructed the complete pictures out of the half pages. The woodcuts do not perfectly fit, therefor we had to modify some details. This is justified because Hokusai himself cared, above everything, for the intellectual idea of a picture and much less for the details. However, he sometimes wrote his editor to assign "better qualified" woodcutters to his publications.
The intellectual idea : This manga is really crazy, because Hokusai paints the scene "seen with the eyes of a blind person".
For Hokusai, the artist is a demon, who can take any position and be whatever he wants to be, he can describe the world with the eyes of a god, or with the eyes of a fly.
We believe, that no other artist before Hokusai had these visions of total artistic liberty.
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