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It's worth noting that the link on the page to the list of pictures contains a mis-transliteration in search of "banbutsu" for "banmotsu" leading to a blank result. Both are possible for 万物, but the prior is more common.
I believe this is the correct link to a full list of the Lost Sketches: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/search?keyword=ehon...
Thank you for the correction! I managed to find some, but not the collection as the post OP meant to share.
Every few months I post this link again about how ALL comics (well, at least Japanese ones...) start from Hokusai Manga and this exhibit tells that story beautifully.
https://hokusai.anotherstory.world/en/
It's terrific, and touring for several years all over the world.
I got to visit the exhibit when it was in Boston's MFA in 2014 or so, and it was really awe-inspiring. They had wood blocks from period prints and it's just amazing what artistry was able to come from that. I got a print of Red Fuji while I was there, and it still hangs on my wall.
Wood block print maker David Bull produced NEW wood block prints based on these sketches: https://mokuhankan.com/subscriptions/reborn.html
He streams regularly on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking
It's a shame that they won't ship to the US at all (and apparently Japan's post office won't even accept packages to the US) because of the tariff stuff. Here's hoping today's SCOTUS ruling overturning almost all the tariffs fixes this soon.
The last thing I ordered from Japan, I had chatted with the vendor who had a friend in South America who was traveling to the US for vacation in December.
So they shipped the package to the friend, who took it on vacation to the US and shipped it domestically to me just because of this tariff fuckery.
I bought one of his prints of The Great Wave off Kanagawa. It's stunning.
The series is up there with Clickspring's skeleton clock in my pantheon of "greatest long-form process videos"