Japanist Evgeny Steiner's book is a complete and detailed commentary on the Manga publication, which has no analogues in the world in terms of the completeness of illustrations and historical comments.

The author is convinced that cultural and historical explanation is in many cases absolutely necessary . The Hokusai Manga, although written not in hieroglyphs, but in “pictorial writing”, needs to be translated from the language of Japanese historical and mythological subjects, as well as foreign cultural realities of two hundred years ago.

The book will become a desktop manual and will be interesting to all art lovers, enthusiasts of Japanese culture, as well as professional Japanese and Sinologists.