In Edo Period Japan, only the merchants possessed ... The most sampled ukiyo-e, even over a century later, is Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa. Though drawn after the Genroku Era’s high ...

Tanaka plays the older Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), a renowned ukiyo-e woodblock artist in the Edo Period (1603-1867), in the latter half of "Hokusai," taking over the role from Yuya Yagira ...

Set in the final decades of the Edo period (1603-1868), at a time when popular culture and its artforms were suppressed, the film sees young Hokusai (played by Yūya Yagira) try to establish ...

The act of painting was always kurara to O-Ei, the daughter of the Edo period master painter Katsushika Hokusai. Since her childhood, she was captivated by painting. O-Ei marries a town painter ...

Hokusai (1760-1849) is regarded as one of the greatest ukiyo-e artists of the late Edo Period (1603-1867). A resident of Gunma Prefecture donated the portrait to the Hokusai Museum here at the end ...

The act of painting was always kurara to O-Ei, the daughter of the Edo period master painter Katsushika Hokusai. Since her childhood, she was captivated by painting. O-Ei marries a town painter ...

Shunga is a type of Japanese art by famous ukiyo-e artists of the Edo Period, such as Utamaro, Hokusai, and Kiyonaga, but the artform’s development was thwarted by social norms that tabooed sex.

The Hokusai and Ukiyo-e: The Floating World exhibition showcases 50 artworks by the masters of Japan’s Edo period (1603–1868). Works by acclaimed artists such as Hokusai and Hiroshige provide ...

Hokusai and Ukiyo-e: The Floating World will feature paintings and woodblock prints from the Edo Period in Japan, one of the most recognizable of which is Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa." ...

And it's how the most famous of all Japanese images, Hokusai's 'Great Wave', is sometimes ... should it become necessary, to return to Edo in the ensuing spring with a much larger force." ...