Hokusai’s most famous artwork is “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” part of his series “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji” created between 1826 and 1833. The print depicts a towering wave about to crash, with Mount Fuji in the background. It has become an iconic representation of Japanese ...
Museum facilities You will find a small museum shop, a lecture hall, and a library at the Sumida Hokusai Museum. The museum shop mainly has products with Hokusai’s artwork on them, including postcards, t-shirts, and artprints. There’s also a small selection of books, some of which are...
He created one of the most famous Japanese artworks ever made. It is called "The Great Wave". The title of Hokusai's artwork is very fitting. The wave in the picture is certainly great. It appears very powerful and frightening. It towers over three boats full of fishermen. The fishermen...
Hokusai is one of Japan’s most famous ukiyo-e (traditional Japanese woodblock print) artists. He is most known for the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and his iconic artwork The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Those interested in Hokusai’s work and Japanese history should visit this special...
The Great Wave off Kanagawa has been described as "possibly the most reproduced image in the history of all art",[1] as well as being a contender for the "most famous artwork in Japanese history".[2] It has influenced several notable artists and musicians, including Vincent van Gogh, Clau...
Hokusai’s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”, created in late 1831 is one of the most famous artworks from Japan. The print is Hokusai’s best-known work and the first in his series, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. In this artwork, we see a massive wave rising high above a group of...
source of inspirationfor Impressionists. It was this school that created the term 'Japonisme' (Anglicised to 'Japonism'). Famous artists such asVincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet and James Whistlerbegan by copying eastern printwork, before using it to help shape their own, more...
(modern day Tokyo) to a family of artisans, Hokusai began painting at the age of six. Despite constant challenges in his career Hokusai endowed the world with some of the most arresting evocative and historically crucial depictions of landscape and nature. Works include his famous woodcuts of ...
Whether for economic reasons or not, from this time on Hokusai’s attention turned gradually from novel illustration to the picture book and, particularly, to the type of wood-block-printed copybook designed for amateur artists (including the famousHokusai manga). Very likely his intention was to...