An exhibition titled "Hokusai Humor: Sowing Seeds of Smiles" is running at the Sumida Hokusai Museum in Sumida Ward, Tokyo, until November 26.
The exhibition, focusing on "An Unknown Domain of Woodblock Printed Books," runs from September 21 to November 27, 2022.
In Tokyo through June 12, this is the only place in the world where Hokusai works from Japan and the United Kingdom are displayed in collaboration.
Flowers, beloved since the dawn of human history, have been the chosen subjects of countless paintings. See them in a new exhibition timed to enjoy alongside...
The 103 works in the British Museum exhibition give new insight into the years leading up to some of Hokusai’s most famous series.
Shinji Tsuchimochi is an ukiyo-e artist planted solidly in the 21st century, and, like the ukiyo-e from 300 years ago, his work represents the best of...
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...
~As you can see, painting and music have always influenced one another and developed in spite of their different means of expression.~ (Part 13 of a...
