Some of the world’s best-known images are on view this spring in “Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, March 24 through June 17. The exhibition ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Visitors can step back in time to Japan's samurai era in an new Tokyo exhibition that uses cutting-edge technology to bring to life the work of iconic artist Hokusai. "Hokusai: ...
Katsushika Hokusai, “Under the wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave)” (1831) from Thirty-six views of Mt. Fuji, color woodblock, (all images courtesy of the British Museum) Katsushika Hokusai, “Shōki ...
Hokusai and the rise of the landscape print -- Looking at Hokusai's prints -- Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji -- A tour of waterfalls in various provinces -- Snow, moon, and flowers -- Eight views of ...
Ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai may have made his name with the 'Thirty-six Views of Mt Fuji' landscape series, but his greatest achievement was arguably the 15-volume 'Hokusai Manga', an extensive ...
A Dutch art historian says he has discovered evidence that six unattributed paintings held in storage in a museum in the Netherlands were actually painted by the famed Japanese artist Katsushika ...
Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. "From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the forms of things. By the time I was fifty I had published an infinity of designs; ...
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A visitor attends an exhibition that uses cutting-edge technology to bring to life the work of iconic samurai-era ukiyo-e artist Hokusai in Tokyo. Photo: Reuters Visitors can step back in time to ...