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 […]
Oiran and Kamuro is a woodblock print showing a a woman and a girl. The woman is dressed in fully traditional attire in a lush robe and hair ornaments. She is the ‘oiran’, or the prostitute. Oiran were not just women providing sex, though. Their job was to entertain, please, and give their time to […]
Umezawa in Sagami Province, is one of the amazing masterpieces of Katsushika Hokusai’s series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji also known as the Fugaku sanjūrokkei, Sōshū Umezawa zai. Hokusai was born in October 1670 in Japan, Edo district and died in May, 1849 and was buried in Seikyō-ji in Tokyo (Taito Ward). The painting Umezawa […]
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was one of the most famous Japanese artists of the nineteenth century. His most well-known work, made in his seventies, was The Great Wave, one of a series of coloured etchings the artist made of Mount Fuji. Earlier in his career he made a large number of woodcut prints including several Still […]
One of the places that are a symbol of tradition is the Yodo River. In the art done by the very well known and celebrated artist Hokusai Katsushika, you can see that the river is the main waterway that meets together Osaka and Kyoto. The currents in this river are said to be very helpful […]
Fine Wind, Clear Morning is one of Housaki’s most famous woodblock prints. It is part of as series of 36 works titled “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji”. This is a series of stunning wood block prints all concerning Mount Fuji and displaying the mountain in various different states. This particular print displays Mount Fuji in […]