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1760. Date of death. 1849. Katsushika Hokusai’s woodblock print The Great Wave is one of the most famous and recognizable works of art in the world. This work is from Hokusai’s much-celebrated series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjûrokkei), a tour-de-force that established the popularity of landscape prints, which continues to ...
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)”, 1830/33Katsushika Hokusai. Cranes on snow-covered pine, c. 1834Katsushika Hokusai. Shower Below the Summit (Sanka hakuu), from the series “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku ...
Aug 27, 2024 · 7. Hokusai began the series when he was 70 years old. In his late 60s, just before the publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi commissioned Hokusai to produce a new series—what would become Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji—Hokusai had suffered a series of tragedies. He had a stroke, his wife died, and all the while, he was dealing with a grandson who ...
Sep 6, 2024 · The Art Institute of Chicago has three copies of Katsushika Hokusai’s iconic work The Great Wave Off Kanagawa in its collection and one of them has been removed from storage and is back on display in the museum until Jan 6, 2025. The Great Wave has not been on view in the Art Institute galleries for five years because, like all prints, it is ...
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: The Great Wave Off the Coast of Kanagawa (Edo period, 19th century) by Katsushika Hokusai Tokyo National Museum. 1. He was an apprentice wood carver at 14. Katsushika Hokusai, 'Rainstorm Beneath the Summit' (Sanka haku'u), a colour woodblock print (1831/1831) British Museum. 2.
Within Japan, his contributions moved Ukiyo-e from focusing on scenes of city life to landscapes and led to greater experimentation and change in approaches to perspective; Hokusai's approach was continued by Utagawa Hiroshige, who produced a direct homage to Hokusai's Fujimigahara in Owari Province, entitled Barrel-maker, Copied from a Picture by Old Master Katsushika, in 1836 and Kobayashi ...
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), Poem diviner. Hanging scroll, ink and light colour on paper, Japan, 1827. Gift of Sir William Gwynne-Evans. In 1819, Hokusai turned 60. Looking forward to another journey around the 60-year East Asian calendrical cycle, he devised the new art name Iitsu, meaning 'one again'.
