The 103 works in the British Museum exhibition give new insight into the years leading up to some of Hokusai’s most famous series.
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and other series giving us the perspectives of famous and unknown places of the time, without ever reusing them.
Hokusai painted not only courtesans, but also ordinary townspeople. His work were generally luxurious artworks for an elite audience, said to include the art-loving shogun of...
The insatiable curious Hokusai as a reporter in his times is the theme of a new book by Japanese journalist Keiko Chino, focusing on the human...
150 years before Western artists, Hokusai engaged in performance art (sekiga) upon the request of a patron or for entertainment, and the images increased their fame.
The 103 sketches for The Great Picture Book of Everything by Hokusai never made it back to Japan, but they did resurface in Europe in June...
I would like to introduce you to some of Hokusai’s illustrated books, which are known to painters, but rarely introduced to a wider audience despite the...
A lone tiger growls in the midst of heavy rain. Compared to a real tiger, this tiger has a strange shape with a long neck and...
~~ A magnificent sunset sinks behind Mount Fuji. The two “number ones in Japan” become silhouettes and merge over the orange canvas. In a residential neighborhood...
On the 260th anniversary of his birth, the life of Japan’s most famous artist is finally on film! Hokusai, the movie, was originally scheduled to be...
Part 7 of a series marking the artist’s 260th anniversary Other parts of the series: Introduction to a series on one of Japan’s artistic icons, Hokusai...
(Above) Waves at Matsushima (17th century) by Tawaraya Sōtatsu Part 6 of a series marking the artist’s 260th anniversary Other parts of the series: Introduction to a series...
