Within View to the North from Asukayama Hill, we see how portrait-shaped landscape paintings can work beautifully. The dimensions make the view across this view point even more breathtaking, with more detail added into the foreground than found in the distance. There is a multitude of figures found wandering around Asukayama Hill, clearly enjoying the […]
Popular Japanese paintings by artists like Hokusai include poppies. These are popular artworks made using handmade techniques on print material. Japanese art has different themes including ancient prints of landscape, flowers, the ocean and scenic views. The exclusive paintings of the common flower reveal a deep history of the plant, which is common in oriental […]
One glance at the painting and one would notice that there is a lot going on in there. The painting belongs to the Edo period, i.e. from 1615 to 1868; it was painted by Hokusai somewhere during 1830-1834 to be precise. The Bay of Noboto, one of the most renowned Japanese paintings, belongs to the […]
Hawk on a Ceromonial Stand is one of the revered Japanese artist Hokusai’s only works that depicts an animal or animals. He was much more well known for his landscape painting that showed the effects of the harsh elements of the Japanese weather system, like The Great Wave. The style of the painting is still […]
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 […]
Japanese posters make stunning additions to your home or workplace, making the best of classic, traditional art at it’s finest. The colours and subjects found in the Japanese art from the likes of Hiroshige are ideally suited to poster reproduction formats. Posters also have the advantage of being very cheap to buy, meaning that you can quickly […]
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 […]