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 ...

This year’s Japanese Film Festival will open with a new biopic delving into the life and times of Katsushika Hokusai, one of Japan’s most influential artists. 'HOKUSAI' scriptwriter and actor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The only art history class I took as an undergrad was ... The show features roughly 100 works by Katsushika Hokusai (c.1760-1849) and “200 additional works by the artist’s teachers, family ...

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 Fuji, which actually contained 46 images (because ...

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: ...

The act of painting was always kurara to O-Ei, the daughter of the Edo period master painter Katsushika Hokusai. Since her childhood, she was captivated by painting. O-Ei marries a town painter ...

The Great Wave off Kanagawa, by Katsushika Hokusai. (Wikimedia Commons ... Kaleka to contemporary artists such as Atul Dodiya and Subodh Gupta. We look at the history of blue in art and how Prussian ...