Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849 ... “He was the greatest Japanese artist, yet many Japanese people, including myself, knew very little about his life.” Kawahara became fascinated with the ...

OBUSE, Nagano Prefecture--An extremely rare hand-drawn portrait likely by renowned ukiyo-e woodblock artist Katsushika Hokusai that recently came to light has triggered a quest to identify the ...

Tanaka plays the older Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), a renowned ukiyo ... by "Hokusai Manga" that he imitated some of the poses of people featured in the collection of sketches.

French Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Edo-era Japanese printmaker Katsushika ... but we want people to experience and appreciate the fact of looking.” Hokusai’s painting ...

The Met in New York has teamed up with Band-Aid to offer bandages printed with the museum's most iconic works.

An American magazine calls Katsushika Hokusai one of 100 people who left the most important achievements of the past millennium. Assisting him behind the scenes however was a woman: his daughter ...

Japan Society showcases rarely displayed Japanese masterworks from the 12th to the 21st centuries unified by the central theme of celebration.

Most people can understand why they’re funny ... Angus Lockyer describes Katsushika Hokusai's Great Wave. It was produced in the early 1830s as part of a series, Thirty Six Images of Mount ...

Katsushika Hokusai's "Chrysanthemums and Horsefly," a woodblock print made around 1833-34, was one of the many works by the Japanese master printer that influenced French Impressionist painter ...

Rosewood London’s Mirror Room is thrilled to unveil its latest Art Afternoon Tea collection, an immersive and visually ...

Katsushika Hokusai was probably the most famous and most outstanding Japanese painter and printmaker of his generation and was the artist whose fame was the quickest to cross the seas A ...