French Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Edo-era Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) never met and were alive at the same time for only nine years. But sometimes your ...

Christie’s celebrates Asian Art Week, a series of six auctions, three live and three online, taking place 12-27 March at Rockefeller Center.

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.

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

The Great Wave is ubiquitous, but this didn’t happen during Hokusai’s lifetime. A print was shown at the 1867 International Exposition in Paris (18 years after his death) and it had a huge impact.

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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...