Hokusai school, attributable to Totoya Hokkei, 魚屋北渓 (1780-1850), collection of sketches, Japan, Edo period, circa 1800/1830 Fourteen album-bound Indian ink paintings on paper depicting various legendary figures. Eleven sketches of fighters, probably Suikoden heroes, from the 14th-century Chinese novel "At the Water's Edge". A sketch of Daruma meditating on a mound, another, on a double-page spread, depicting the giant Wasobyoye on whom small characters climb and, finally, Fukurokuju, one of the seven gods of happiness. All drawings are laminated on cardboard with a cloth frame. Two red seals at the beginning and end of the album. Floral fabric cover. 43,3 x 32,5