Hokusai Katsushika

Considered Hokusai's masterpiece, this series of images -- which first appeared in the 1830s in three small volumes -- captures the simple, elegant shape of Mount Fuji from every angle and in every context.

One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji

Hokusai

Hokusai Manga

Hokusai manga

Muneshige Narazaki

Hiroshige Andō

Studies in Nature: Hokusai-Hiroshige

Seiji Nagata

An introduction to the life and art of Japan's famous artist export, Hokusai, written by the curator of the Ota Memorial Museum in Tokyo. The book contains a commentary on the artist's life and work, and details outlining composition and technique. Hokusai is perhaps the Asian artist best known in the West. His influence has extended from the Impressionists to later modern art and even to commercial design. A few of his works are so frequently reproduced that they are almost as familiar as the face of the Mona Lisa. Yet the Great Wave' and the 'Red Fuji' from the'

Genius of the Japanese Ukiyo-e

Ehon teikin orai (source of knowledge)

Fugaku Hiyaku-kei, Or, A Hundred Views of Fuji (Fusiyama)

Charles S. Terry

Hokusai's 36 Views of Mt. Fuji

Discusses the importance of Mt. Fuji in Japanese society, shows prints featuring the mountain, and explains the background of each scene depicted

The Latest Discovery of Hokusai's Original Drawings

"Daily Exorcismus"

北斎漫画

This profusely illustrated volume presents groundbreaking scholarship on the Ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and his immediate artistic and literary circles. Achieving worldwide renown for his dramatic landscape print series, such as the "Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji," Hokusai also excelled in book illustrations, erotica, and privately commissioned woodcuts called "surimono." Aspects of the artist's innovative and novel approach to the graphic arts are discussed in the first half of this volume. Less well known, Hokusai was a highly accomplished painter who oversaw a studio of several close pupils, including his daughter Ti, who often worked in a style closely resembling his own. The study of Hokusai's corpus of paintings thus raises many complex issues of authorship, dating and authenticity -- further complicated by the abundant production of forgeries both during and after his lifetime. An appendix of recognized Hokuzai seals helps further clarify this aspect of the artist's work. The distinguished roster of contributors includes: Asano Shugo, Gian Carlo Calza, John T. Carpenter, Timothy T. Clark, Doris Croissant, Kobayashi Tadashi, Kubota Kazuhiro Roger Keyes, Matsudaira Susumu, Matthi Forrer, Naito Masato, David Pollack, John M. Rosenfield, Timon Screech, Segi Shin'ichi, Henry D. Smith II, and Tsuji Nobuo. The publication is sponsored by the International Hokusai Research Centre at the University of Venice and the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC), London and Norwich.

Ukiyo-e Painting, Printmaking and Book Illustration in Late Edo Japan

Hokusai and His Age

Hokusai Katsushika

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