Drawing 11.  19.3 X 27.3 cm.

A man walking by the sea, offering a piece of cloth to another man, by Hokusai and a pupil.
Published in Chûkô itako bushi, vol. 2, plate 3B – 4A, in 1809.

Changes from drawing to print:

• A flock of black birds taking flight has been added to the print, in the foreground on the left.
• On the house in the foreground, the part of the wall under the lintel looks different and seems to be made of a different type of material, the post between the lintel and the top of the roof has been moved to the right.
• The three boats in the distance on the right have been removed.
• The leaves of the vine at bottom left.
• The drawing of the barrel furthest to the right, which went over the edge of the frame, has been trimmed back to the limit of the frame. The other barrels have been narrowed but strangely, only from the right. The man alongside, with the rake, has been moved slightly to the left.
   

Artist's shorthand:

• The leaves in the bottom left hand corner, who are only indicated in terms of their mass.
• The tree at bottom right.
• The tufts of grass, all the way along the path.
• As always, the hair and clothes of the main figures, and here, even the smaller ones.
   

The action in this drawing is centred on the exchange between the two main characters, each in the middle of a page. The figure on the left, however, is intriguing. He seems to answer the frank and spontaneous gesture of the other person with an ambiguous attitude and contorted posture. More surprisingly, we do not find in this figure the deliberate strength of line seen in the other person. This reminds us of the rather stiff and gestured figure, with a fairly inexpressive face, and stiffly hanging clothes with weaker lines, seen in Fig. 3.
A highly magnified examination of the lines confirms that the figure on the right and the background have been drawn by the same person, which was clearly Hokusai. On the other hand, the figure on the left was drawn by someone else, with less strength and self assurance.
This leads us to believe that Hokusai and a pupil each drew one of the two main characters. Hokusai then finished the rest of the drawing by adding the background scenery, including the rounded rocks, pointed grass and tiny figures he liked to do during this period.