The 19th-century Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai has long been renowned for the legendary stormy scene depicted in Great Wave. His woodblock print is one of the most reproduced images in ...

The intricate handle engravings harken to classic Japanese woodblock prints, namely Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa.

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 ...

Katsushika Hokusai's "Chrysanthemums and Horsefly," a woodblock print made around 1833-34, was one of the many works by the Japanese master printer that influenced French Impressionist painter Claude ...

Savelkoul describes it as “a reinterpretation of an Old Master painting by a major contemporary artist”, adding that the work ...

Christie’s celebrates Asian Art Week, a series of six auctions, three live and three online, taking place 12-27 March at Rockefeller Center.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

McAninch Arts Center Director Diana Martinez and Cleve Carney Museum of Art Curator Justin Witte also will provide an overview of the upcoming exhibition “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World ...