James Fox asks how Hokusai's The Great Wave became one of the most famous artworks in the world.

Asia Week New York, the highly anticipated annual celebration of Asian art and culture, will return for their 16th year from March 13-21. Heritage Auctions is honored to offer a rare, early impression ...

HOKUSAI' scriptwriter and actor Len Kawahara says recreating the artist’s journey was 'like joining the dots' and that his 200-year-old artworks contain messages still relevant today.

Tokyo launches Hokusai art exhibit Posted: 2 February 2025 | Last updated: 2 February 2025 Visitors at an innovative exhibition in Tokyo stepped into Japan's illustrious Samurai era, where ...

Although Katsushika Hokusai is undoubtedly Japan’s best-known artist, some of his works have never been on public display. The British Museum in London will remedy that late September with the ...

Japan's iconic ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai left an indelible mark on the art world. We trace the development of "The Great Wave" and the location that inspired "Rainstorm beneath the Summit." ...

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 made 46 prints that all show Mount Fuji in different ways. Hokusai and his art inspired many other artists such as Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh. This painting is called 'Flowering ...

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

Katsushika Oi, known as O-Ei, is the third daughter of Katsushika Hokusai and she is an Ukiyo-e artist in her own right. O-Ei married to a painter, but soon divorced and worked as Hokusai's ...