And as this political climate was brewing, Japanese and Western art began to awaken to each other’s existence. The Sackler Gallery’s exhibition of Hokusai’s “36 Views of Mt. Fuji” charts ...

Asia Week New York, the highly anticipated annual celebration of Asian art and culture, will return for their 16th year from March 13-21.

The two masters come together in a quiet, sparsely curated exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art titled “Hokusai|Monet.” The show includes 10 prints from Hokusai’s “Large Flower ...

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.

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 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 ...

The unrealistic composition is a hallmark of Hokusai’s mastery of the genre ... That, in turn, meant the erotic art was free of censorship that targeted other ukiyo-e works, allowing painters ...

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 ...

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 ...