Although Hokusai's woodblock prints and paintings had a profound impact on Western artists ranging from Claude Monet to Vincent Van Gogh, relatively little is known about the artist who lived up ...

An exhibition exploring this historical relationship through ukiyo-e (traditional woodblock prints and paintings ...

woodblock print, from the series Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces (Shokoku meikyo kiran), signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu (Brush of Iitsu, the former Hokusai), censor’s seal kiwame ...

OBUSE, Nagano Prefecture--An extremely rare hand-drawn portrait likely by renowned ukiyo-e woodblock artist Katsushika Hokusai that recently came to light has triggered a quest to identify the ...

woodblock print, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), signed Saki no Hokusai Manji (Manji, the former Hokusai), censor's seal kiwame (approved), ...

David Edelstein under Unsplash License In 1831, the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai immortalized a snow-covered Mount Fuji in the background of his famous woodblock print, The Great Wave off ...

This print has two names: 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa' and 'The Great Wave'. Hokusai used a type of printing called woodblock printing. Woodblock printing began in Japan and is one of the oldest ...

On September 17, Christie's sold its print of the iconic Japanese woodblock image for $858,800 ... estimate of $500,000 to ...