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 ...

The portrait apparently was executed by Hokusai in his early 40s, based on kanji characters that state it was done in 1803 in the Japanese imperial era. Only a few original portraits drawn by ...

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." ...

The act of painting was always kurara to O-Ei, the daughter of the Edo period master painter Katsushika Hokusai. Since her childhood, she was captivated by painting. O-Ei marries a town painter ...

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' 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.

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 ...

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 ...