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 […]
Hokusai was a Japanese master artist as well as a printmaker of the Ukiyo-e School. His work has a reflection of a full spectrum of Ukiyo-e art which includes a variety of hand painting, single sheet prints of actors and landscape. One of his famous print series known as the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji […]
This painting from Japanese painter Hiroshige captures a display of beautiful maple leaves which partially cover our view towards rolling hills in the far distance. The artist has successfully transported us to the same position that he would have been sat back in the early 19th century. Leaves, plants and flowers were a key ingredient […]
The Inume Pass in Kai Province or Kōshū Inume tōge), is one of the masterpieces of Katsushika Hokusai’s series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji also called Fugaku sanjūrokkei. Hokusai was born in 1760 in Edo District in Japan during the Edo period and died in 1849. The print Inuma Pass in Kai Province was printed […]
Fishing by Torchlight in Kai Province is a wonderfully atmospheric work of art by the Japanese painter Hokusai. Hokusai lived between 1760 and 1849; he is said to have started painting at the young age of six, and he died in what is now Tokyo. Throughout his long life of 88 years, Hokusai created numerous […]
Fuji View Plain in Owari Province or Bishû Fujimi-ga-hara, is a print form the famous Katsushika Hokusai’s series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji also known as Fugaku sanjûrokkei. The volcano Mount Fuji has been fascinating the Japanese history for centuries. Historians and artists alike have had a lot to say and depict about the Mount […]
Now located across two of Tokyo’s busiest districts, Onden once resided behind the Zenko-ji Temple in the Aoyama district. It was then a small farming village littered with many waterwheels, powered by the great Shibuya river. It is one of these watermills that is depicted by the distinguished Japanese artist, Katsushika Hokusai, in his ‘Watermill […]
This painting of drama and the natural world though, Carp Leaping up a Cascade, depicts the great passions of Hokusai – that of movement, nature and emotive life and the constant struggle to achieve. Katsushika Hokusai is largely regarded as a father of Japanese art and is known the world over by being the creator […]
Katsushika Hokusai is a legend of illustration, with each painting leaving a question and quest for more, a pursuit of understanding the meaning behind each canvas. Hokusai’s Onikojima Yataro and Saiho-in Akabozu is a masterpiece, to say the least. The painting is vibrant, the choice of color significant, the depiction alluring, each touch, every single […]