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 ...

Tanaka plays the older Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), a renowned ukiyo-e woodblock artist in the Edo Period (1603-1867), in the latter half of "Hokusai," taking over the role from Yuya Yagira ...

Hokusai’s Great Wave is seen as the ultimate emblem of Japanese art and is the most reproduced image on the planet – there’s something comforting about seeing it. Whether I spot a ...

French Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Edo-era Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) never met and were alive at the same time for only nine years. But sometimes ...

Katsushika Hokusai was probably the most famous and most outstanding Japanese painter and printmaker of his generation and was the artist whose fame was the quickest to cross the seas A ...

National Palace Museum Southern Branch associate researcher Chu Lung-hsing introduces the woodblock print "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai at the museum in Chiayi County on Monday.

Yet Hokusai has drawn the sea over which these ... Japanese resistance melted in the face of Commodore Perry's threats, and very quickly the Japanese embraced the new economic model.