Created by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) in the early 1830s, the woodblock print (full name: “Under the Wave off Kanagawa”) was a sensation from the moment it was produced as part of ...

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) was the first Japanese artist to be internationally recognized, and his art continues to inspire viewers around the world.Drawing from its preeminent Japanese collection ...

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The Sumida Hokusai Museum, dedicated solely to the work of Japanese woodcut artist Katsushika Hokusai, opened yesterday, November 22, in the Tokyo neighborhood of Sumida—the very area in which Hokusai ...

Freer Gallery of Art founder Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919) first discovered the great Japanese artist Hokusai (1760–1849) through his woodblock prints. Beginning in 1898, Freer turned to collecting ...

The play of shadows across a face. Concealing. Revealing. Highlighting. Obscuring. In “Miss Hokusai,” directed by Keiichi Hara from a screenplay by Miho Maruo, light and darkness are artfully ...

TOKYO (AP) — A museum dedicated to Japanese woodblock print artist Katsushika Hokusai, creator of some of the most iconic art of the genre, opened Tuesday in the neighborhood he lived in some two ...