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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849 ... “Hokusai’s work is different in that he does include ordinary people, peasants, people who are just doing hard labor.” To Hokusai, ordinary people were ...
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 ...
The Met in New York has teamed up with Band-Aid to offer bandages printed with the museum's most iconic works.
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 ...
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 ...
This new edition edited by Kyoko Wada presents the artist through his teaching and drawing manuals ...
Katsushika Hokusai, “Tiger in the Snow” (1849), hanging scroll, ink and color on silk. Private Collection, New York. (photo by Steven Tucker) ...
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 ...
Adults can now cover their wounds with "The Great Wave"-- or two other masterpieces from Japanese artist Hokusai, ...
was born the third daughter of Edo’s talented painter Katsushika Hokusai and his second wife Koto. Although Oei became the wife of a town painter for a time, her love of the paintbrush more than ...