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 ...

Although Hokusai's woodblock prints and paintings had a profound impact on Western artists ranging from Claude Monet to Vincent Van Gogh, relatively little is known about the artist who lived up ...

Katsushika Hokusai was probably the most famous and ... probably comprising some 30000 prints not counting his oil paintings and the books he illustrated The painters life was rich his work ...

O-Ei continued to devote her life to Ukiyo-e painting even after Hokusai's death. Ikeda Zenjiro, Ukiyo-e artist known as Keisai Eisen, gained great popularity for his Bijin-ga, portraits of women.

He visits regularly because he admires Hokusai and secretly likes Oei although their relationship is like childhood friends. Oei respects her father whose paintings fascinated her and continues to ...

And it's how the most famous of all Japanese images, Hokusai's 'Great Wave', is sometimes read. This best-selling woodblock print was made around 1830 by the great artist Hokusai, as one of his ...

The unrealistic composition is a hallmark of Hokusai’s mastery of the genre ... The large hand-drawn paintings were later turned into scrolls. Shunga were produced in secret because the activity ...

The mural will be painted sometime before the summer of 2025. Hokusai and Ukiyo-e: The Floating World will feature paintings and woodblock prints from the Edo Period in Japan, one of the most ...