Enoshima in Sagami Province or Sōshū Enoshima, is a print that is found in Katsushika Hokusai’s series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji also known as Fugaku sanjūrokkei. The iconic artist was born during the Edo period in October 1670 in Edo District and died in May 1849. The print Enoshima in Sagami Province was produced […]
Senju in Musashi Province or Bushū Senju, is one Katsushika Hokusai’s prints from the famous series The Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji also called Fugaku sanjūrokkei. Katsushika Hokusai was born on 31st of October, 1760 in the Japan Edo District and died on the 10th of May 1849. The print Senju Musashi Province was produced […]
Hokusai’s print; Tea at Koishikawa – the morning after a snowfall, is a wonderful example of Hokusai’s ability to evoke an image of the changing nature of the environment. Hokusai highlights the effect of a single snowfall on the landscape; no surface escapes the simple white blanket. The picture shows a group of men and […]
Asakusa Hongan-ji Temple in the Eastern Capital Edo is a view of Mount Fuji from the Tsukiji Hongan-ji temple in Tokyo. The print is one of a series of woodblock prints called Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji. Despite its name, the series however has 46 blocks, since ten were added at a later date […]
Choshi in Shimosa is a work on ink and paper by Hokusai, and it depicts one of the artist’s favourite themes: the ocean. Hokusai was born in Edo (which we now know as Tokyo) in 1760, and he died in the same region in 1849. During his lifetime he built up a reputation as one […]
Katsushika Hokusai was an influential Japanese artist who adopted various names during his career. Born in Tokyo around 1760, he was a painter of the Edo period (1603-1868), Edo being the old name for Tokyo, and became a printmaker and woodblock printer or ukiyo-e. Having studied carving and block printing, his early work focused on […]
The Tea Plantation of Katakura in Suruga Province is a brilliant woodblock painting depicting the entire workings of the tea plantation. The picture is less about a landscape depiction of the tea plantation itself and more about the daily life in it. The print is one of a series of woodblock prints called Thirty Six […]
The cushion pine at Aoyama was the most known trees at the precinct of Ryuganji which was 5.6 meters wide. Some other smaller pine trees were also planted in around so that to surround it. A famous artist called Katsushika Hokusai depicted the Mt Fuji as a triangle and the hill of pine trees as […]
The back of Fuji From the Minobu River or Minobu-gawa ura Fuji is one of Katsushika Hokusai’s series of The Thirty-Six Views of Fuji or Fugaku sanjurokkei (oban Yoko-e).Hokusai depicts the travellers and horses walking run down to the Kuonji Temple, which is believed to be the head temple of Nichiren sect. In fact, from […]
The Fuji from Kanaya on the Tōkaidō or Tōkaidō Kanaya no Fuji, is one of the prints from the famous series of Katsushika Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji Fugaku sanjūrokkei. The print was produced by Hokusai in Japanese Tokyo during the Edo Period. The Edo period is believed to have been between 1615 and […]