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 ...

Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) stands tall as one of Japan’s most celebrated artists, renowned for his dazzling imagination, ...

So you woke up late on the weekend, and need to get out of the city to see some art, but you haven’t had time to plan. No problem: We’ve done the research for you. Here’s our pick for a great ...

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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 ...

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Next summer the College of DuPage’s Cleve Carney Museum of Art in Glen Ellyn will host “Hokusai and Ukiyo-e: The Floating World, Artworks from the Chiossone Collection,” a collection of renowned ...

The MFA Boston shows how one of the greatest printmakers, from Edo Japan, inspired a tidal wave of followers, from Gauguin to Lichtenstein. By Jason Farago Jason Farago, a critic at large, reviewed ...

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 ...

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 ...