Although Hokusai's woodblock prints and paintings had a profound impact on Western artists ranging from Claude Monet to Vincent Van Gogh, relatively little is known about the artist who lived up ...

Casio has announced a pair of G-Shock 5600 series watches bearing two of the most famous paintings in Japanese art. First up ...

woodblock print, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), signed Saki no Hokusai Manji (Manji, the former Hokusai), censor's seal kiwame (approved), ...

Glen Ellyn will welcome the famous Great Wave off Kanagawa painting with a mural painted at a village landmark chosen by ...

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 ...

What distinguishes this set is its sophisticated approach to the original's dramatic composition, a bridge between fine art ...

after the old-fashioned method of the colored lithograph -- those prints namely which are best known in America and Europe -- belong to the popular and democratic section of the art of Nippon.

This print has two names: 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa' and 'The Great Wave'. Hokusai used a type of printing called woodblock printing. Woodblock printing began in Japan and is one of the oldest ...

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 ...