The Festival of Lanterns on Temma Bridge is a block print created by Hokusai in 1834. The painting shows Temma Bridge, located in Osaka, during the Festival of the Lanterns, also known as Festival of the Gods – Tenjin Matsuri. There are boats in the river, each carrying multiple lanterns in in different arrangements. The […]
Katsushika Hokusai’s Under Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa (Fukagawa Mannen-bashi shita), is a woodcut on paper produced for the famed—and historically significant—book Thirty-Six Views of Fuji. The print was produced around 1830 when Hokusai was well into his seventies, and is a landmark of Japanese print culture. Hokusai considered himself a mad painter who experienced a […]
Cuckoo and Azaleas, known in Japanese as Hototogisu satsuki, is a woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai. The print, depicting a garden of orange azaleas and a lesser cuckoo in flight, was created around 1828, with further prints produced in 1834. It is typical of Hokusai’s woodblock and paper works, featuring natural scenes. Cuckoo and Azaleas […]
One of his most intricate works perhaps, is Katsushika Hokusai’s Honjo Tatekawa, the timberyard at Honjo Sumida. This Japanese woodblock print depicts a work of landscape art by Hokusai, part of his Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji series of woodblock prints. It portrays both industry and activity rendered in the traditional Ukiyo-e style, using […]
The Strong Oi Pouring Sake is a woodblock print depicting the legend of Oi. The theme is Oiko pouring sake to Fan Kuai, a legendary warrior general who lived between 241 to 203 BC during the Han dynasty. In the picture, Oi appears to be huge, especially in comparison to Fan Kuai, depicting the fact […]
Sundai Edo is part of Hokusai’s Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji. As one of the thirty six landscape pieces depicting Mount Fuji in a variety of viewpoints, seasons and weather conditions. Known as 東都駿台 or Tōto sundai in Japanese, this particular print is number five in the collection. Between 1830 and 1832 in the […]
Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist, renowned during the Edo period for his paintings, prints, and woodblocks. His block prints are especially famous. He studied wood block printing from Katsukawa Shunshō and published his first prints in 1779. His series, One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji, is generally considered a masterpiece. Pleasure District at Senju […]
Tsukuda Island in Musashi Province is a work of art created by Hokusai, who is widely considered to be one of the greatest artists that Japan has ever known. Working mainly with woodblocks and ink, Hokusais’s most famous work is probably The Great Wave (circa 1932). Nevertheless, his work Tsukuda Island in Musashi Province is […]
Below Meguro also referred to Lower Meguro or Shimo Meguro, in other publications is one of Katsushika Hokusai’s prints the famous series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji also known as Fugaku sanjūrokke. The printmaker and artist was born in 1760 in Japan, Tokyo, Edo District and died in 1868. The print Below Meguro was produced […]
The Kazusa Province Sea Route or Kazusa no kairo is a marvellous piece painted than none other than the Japanese artist Hatsushika Hokusai. Like most of Hokusai’s paintings, it is one involving the outdoors and of nature. In particular, it depicts the ocean. However, The Kazusa Province Sea Route appears much calmer than his arguably […]