The exhibition provides the rare opportunity to view selected rare swords from the Boston...
Frank Witkam
Frank Witkam is an associate fellow in the department of curatorial planning at the Tokyo National Museum, and part-time lecturer of Japanese art history at Rikkyo University. He received his BA and M.A from Leiden University, and studied Japanese art history at Kyoto University and Keio University with scholarships issued by the Japanese government. He mainly publishes about Japanese woodblock prints, and has translated and edited various publications on Japanese art.
Hokusai painted not only courtesans, but also ordinary townspeople. His work were generally...
150 years before Western artists, Hokusai engaged in performance art (sekiga) upon the request...
The 103 sketches for The Great Picture Book of Everything by Hokusai never made...
On the 260th anniversary of his birth, the life of Japan’s most famous artist...
(Above) Waves at Matsushima (17th century) by Tawaraya Sōtatsu Part 6 of a series marking the...
Feature image: Mountain Climbers (1833) by Katsushika Hokusai Part 4 of a series marking the artist’s...
Feature photo: Hokusai’s “Great Wave” in Camberwell, by Dominic Swords Part 2 of a series marking...
Feature Photo: Katsushika Hokusai, “Under the Wave off Kanagawa” from the series The Thirty-Six...
