However, unlike the picture of Kim K crying, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, to give it its full name, was one of the first images to go viral. Angus Lockyer describes Katsushika Hokusai's Great Wave.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One of the world’s most famous paintings is now on display at the Nelson-Atkins Museum. Called “Under the ...

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 ...

Source: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images HOKUSAI, directed by Hajime Hashimoto, is the opening film of this year’s Japanese Film Festival . It depicts the life of Hokusai and the ...

"Oh, Hokusai! The Great Wave ... People have had wedding photos taken alongside it. The building's current owner recently emailed John to tell him the plaster was beginning to crack and asking ...

And it's how the most famous of all Japanese images, Hokusai's 'Great Wave', is sometimes read. This best-selling woodblock print was made around 1830 by the great artist Hokusai, as one of his ...

These haunting figures are a mix of butoh and contemporary dancers in costume, and their meandering performance is titled “Yokai Encyclopedia Hokusai's 100 Stories One After Another.” ...

Hokusai studied under Katsukawa Shunshō and started out as your standard ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) painter of beautiful upper-class women and kabuki actors, such popular art ...