And as you can see right here, every one of his marks on the paper aids construct up the image. Other musicians come to mind somewhere else in the show: This sheet might be a black-and-white version from one of the cds of birds by the Scot Archibald Thorburn, or the American John James Audubon. Take this comic-book surge, for example:
Hokusai’s Encyclopedia Japonica
From a collection of illustrations connected to Buddhism as well as India, Hokusai captures the minute when King Virudhaka, that had plotted to obliterate the Buddha’s household, was struck dead by a bolt of lightning.