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 ...

To promote Japanese culture and fight forgeries, works of famed ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai of the Edo Period ... For the 10-year passport, 24 paintings are included in the background ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Three of these are dedicated solo exhibitions, like “The Road Less Traveled: ...

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is widely considered the greatest Japanese ukiyo-e painter of all time. Although Hokusai's woodblock prints and paintings had a profound impact on Western artists ...

Visitors can step back in time to Japan's samurai era in an new Tokyo exhibition that uses cutting-edge technology to bring ...

Angus Lockyer describes Katsushika Hokusai's Great Wave. It was produced in the early 1830s as part of a series, Thirty Six Images of Mount Fuji, which actually contained 46 images (because ...

Katsushika Oi, known as O-Ei, is the third daughter of Katsushika Hokusai and she is an Ukiyo ... gained great popularity for his Bijin-ga, portraits of women. Zenjiro and O-Ei sort of grew ...

Katsushika Hokusai was probably the most famous and ... probably comprising some 30000 prints not counting his oil paintings and the books he illustrated The painters life was rich his work ...

She is a young girl inspired by Katsushika Hokusai’s crafts ... Oei respects her father whose paintings fascinated her and continues to work as a painter who supports him behind the scenes.

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 ...