Hokusai
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Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wa
Self-portrait as an old man
Courtesan Asleep, a bijin-ga surimono print, c. late 18th to early 19th century
Fireworks in the Cool of Evening at Ryogoku Bridge in Edo, print, c. 1788–89
Image of bathers from the Hokusai Manga
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, created in late 1831 during the Edo period of Japanese history. The print depicts three boats moving through a
Hokusai
…ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hokusai was instrumental in developing ukiyo-e from a style of portraiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader style of art…
Print at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Plate used to print ukiyo-e
Detail of the centre of the image. In the background is Mount Fuji in blue with a snow-capped peak.