Dawn at Isawa in Kai Province or Kōshū Isawa no akatsuki, is one of the famous prints from Katsushika Hokusai’s series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji also known as Fugaku sanjūrokkei. The artist, Hokusai, was born in 1670 in Japan, Edo District during the Edo period. The print Dawn at Isawa in Kai Province was […]
Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist, renowned during the Edo period for his paintings, prints, and woodblocks. He studied wood block printing from Katsukawa Shunshō and published his first prints in 1779. Hokusai’s work was greatly influenced by Chinese art of the time. He was famous for his block prints and his series One Hundred […]
This work is part of Hokusai’s most famous series of works called “Thirty-six views of Mount Fiji.” This contains many of Hokusai’s most memorable wood block paintings including his most famous piece “The Great Wave off Kanagawa.” It was published in 1831 by the famous publisher Nishimura Yohachi. This particular piece portrays the traditional lifestyle […]
Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Hokusai is known as one of the best Japanese artists considering his artwork to this date is viewed as revolutionary considering its mix of Japanese and western cultures. His greatest known paintings such as The Great Wave depicts Hokusai Ukiyo-e style […]
Katsushika Hokusai’s work has been an inspiration for many artists around the world. During his lifetime (1769-1849), he has produced numerous artworks ranging from still-life portraits, erotic images, landscapes and depictions of everyday life. Hokusai had intended to produce A hundred Ghost stories, as the title of represents, but he only managed five. The Ghost […]
Created in around 1830, Lily is a gorgeous and sumptuous looking work of art by the Japanese Ukiyo-e artist Hokusai. This richly coloured and delicately imagined painting in ink depicts a fresh lily in vivid detail, sent against an attractive background. Though he is perhaps best known for his work The Great Wave (circa 1832), Hokusai […]
Mount Fuji is very famous not only because it is so beautiful but also because of the thirty-six views of Mount Fuji created by Hokusai. It is considered very important to their religion and culture this shown in his arts. In this series, he depicted different views of mount Fuji. At this time he was […]
In Tago Bay near Ejiri on the Tōkaidō, Hokusai employs a romantic framing of Mount Fuji, snow-capped and receding from both cloud and land, towering over Tago bay. The junks at sail in the turbulent waters provide a juxtaposition to Fuji’s similarly powerful, but static, presence. The oarsman of the junk are depicted as strained […]
Kajikazawa in Kai Province is one of the pieces included in Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. In this image, Hokusai shows the sacred Mount Fuji in the background as a fisherman and what appears to be his child attend to their nets. Fishing has always been a significant aspect in Japanese life and comes up […]
Prolific and quintessentially Japanese, the work of Katsushika Hokusai has defined how the West views the art of Japan. Masculine Wave looks at the movement of water differently and more specifically from the iconic ‘Great Wave off Kanagawa,’ giving an intimate picture of the wave as well as a sense of the artist. Hokusai was […]