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 ...

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849 ... “He was the greatest Japanese artist, yet many Japanese people, including myself, knew very little about his life.” Kawahara became fascinated with the ...

An American magazine calls Katsushika Hokusai one of 100 people who left the most important achievements of the past millennium. Assisting him behind the scenes however was a woman: his daughter ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Three of these are dedicated solo exhibitions, like “The Road Less Traveled: ...

A sell-out exhibition at the British Museum has proved once again the popularity of Japanese artist Katsushika ... people would want on their home? Christine Guth, author of Hokusai's Great ...

To promote Japanese culture and fight forgeries, works of famed ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai of the Edo Period (1603-1867) will grace the new Japanese passport. Starting on Feb. 4 ...

The comical and spooky show — based on Katsushika Hokusai’s incomplete ukiyo-e print series, “One Hundred Ghost Stories” — is one of a dozen programs paying homage to the Edo Period ...

He would stay at Japan’s famous “love hotels,” which are mainly for people having affairs and ... The show features roughly 100 works by Katsushika Hokusai (c.1760-1849) and “200 ...

Most people can understand why they’re funny ... Angus Lockyer describes Katsushika Hokusai's Great Wave. It was produced in the early 1830s as part of a series, Thirty Six Images of Mount ...

A Wave of Interest Both Christie's and Bonhams sold prints this week of Katsushika Hokusai's Kanagawa-oki nami-ura (Under the ...