This print has two names: 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa' and 'The Great Wave'. Hokusai used a type of printing called woodblock printing. Woodblock printing began in Japan and is one of the oldest ...

But sometimes your heroes are the ones you never get to meet. Hokusai is known for his magnificent print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” 1831, but it’s his “Large Flower” series ...

Red Fuji is one of Katsushika Hokusai's most famous prints. Image courtesy of the Sackler Gallery The scenes depicted in Katsushika Hokusai’s famous woodblock print series, “36 Views of Mt.

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 ...

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 ...

Oei, later known as Katsushika Oi, 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 ...