Yet, while Hokusai’s image is instantly familiar, few people realise that, when the artist created it, his life was at perhaps its lowest ebb.

Hokusai: More than 100 lost works by non-western world’s most famous artist rediscovered. New findings, part of artist’s abandoned attempt to create Great Picture Book of Everything, trigger ...

The LEGO Art Hokusai The Great Wave (31208) set allows you to recreate this iconic image in 3D with 1,810 pieces. It’s a very relaxing build, especially if you scan the included QR code.

In the history of Japanese art, no-one has come close to the genius of Katsushika Hokusai.The 19th-century painter and print-maker’s passion for understanding the natural world, expressed in ...

Hokusai didn’t explore landscape with real vigor until he was in his 70s. Despite past periods of prestige in Japanese art, landscape had been disregarded by ukiyo-e artists of the 17th, 18th ...

About Hokusai. Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) began sketching at the age of 6. He wished to live to 110 in order to accomplish almost divine mastery of his art, but only made it to 90. A master of ...

Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) may be best known for his iconic woodblock print, The Great Wave Off the Coast of Kanagawa, but few are familiar with another work, a breathtaking ...

The Lego Art Hokusai The Great Wave consists of 1,810 bricks and measures approximately 20.5"x15.5". For those of you who only buy LEGOs when they're on sale, rest assured that this is an ...

The animated movie “Miss Hokusai” imagines what life was like for the daughter of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), the Japanese artist best known for the woodblock print “The Great Wave off ...

Movie review of “Miss Hokusai”: This exquisitely rendered anime movie tells the tale of a gifted female artist living in the shadow of her famous father in 19th-century Japan.