Feminine Wave is an artwork by the Japanese master artist Hokusai. Hokusai is best known for his woodblock paintings and, though he lived back in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, he is still considered one of the finest woodblock artists that the world has ever seen. In the period between 1829 and 1832, he painted […]

The Laughing Demon is a woodcut painting created by Hokusai in 1830. The painting depicts a demon with the face of two of Japans most well known mythological demons the Yamauba and Hannya. This painting is one of Hokusai’s later paintings and was painted 18 years before his death. It was painted around the same […]

Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji is a series by the very talented Katsushika Hokusai. The art is also loved as much as people love the real mountain Fuji. His work is so valuable that it is hard to see real art. It is said that extreme exposure to light can make some important effects on […]

The Great Wave off Kanagawa is known by many other names, including simply Japanese Wave Painting, and The Great Wave. It is perhaps the most famous Japanese painting in history. No one knows for sure when it was created, but it is thought among many art historians that it would have been created between 1829 and 1823. The […]

Mount Fuji has been an inspiration for many art pieces, but One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku Hyakkei) is one of the most famous ones. The artwork is by famed Japanese artist of the Edo era, Katsushika Hokusai. One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji consists of a collection of prints in one woodblock book. […]

While Great Wave of Kanagawa is the most famous work of Katsushika Hokusai and instantly recognisable, it is in his Dragon pictures that we see some of the most exquisite examples of the Ukiyo-e style of wood block printing and painting which flourished in Edo (modern day Tokyo) from the 17th to 19th centuries. Literally translated as “pictures of […]