Works from Hokusai’s most iconic series, “Fugaku Sanjurokkei” (Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji), are featured on the pages. For the 10-year passport, 24 paintings are included in the ...

Although Hokusai's woodblock prints and paintings had a profound impact on Western artists ranging from Claude Monet to Vincent Van Gogh, relatively little is known about the artist who lived up ...

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 ...

Hokusai’s Great Wave is seen as the ultimate ... He initially published ten volumes of drawings, each containing 60 pages covered with multiple images. These books were called his "Manga ...

A sell-out exhibition at the British Museum has proved once again the popularity of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, whose Great Wave is said to be the world's most reproduced image.

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 ...