The Freer Gallery—home to the largest collection of the popular Japanese artist’s paintings—unveils 120 rarely seen works Roger Catlin - Museums Correspondent Katsushika Hokusai was in his 70s by the ...

Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai may be best known for his iconic woodblock print, “Great Wave off Kanagawa,” yet few are familiar with another work—a breathtaking painting titled “Breaking ...

Some of the world’s best-known images are on view this spring in “Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, March 24 through June 17. The exhibition ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai may be best known for his iconic woodblock print, “Great Wave off Kanagawa,” yet few are familiar with another work—a breathtaking painting titled ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about art and culture. Born in 1760 in the Honjo quarter east of present-day Tokyo, Hokusai followed in his earlier works ...

Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon (2015) by Christine M. E. Guth Courtesy the author and University of Hawaii Press Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon (2015) by Christine ...

The British Museum’s exhibition Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave, which opens this week, offers a fresh perspective on the Japanese artist by focusing on the last 30 years of his life. Hokusai ...

Turn a corner on Brick Lane into the Old Truman Brewery's Ely Yard Gallery Space, and you will find yourself immersed in 18th century Edo Japan, by way of artist and printmaker Katsushika Hokusai ...

The world’s most powerful passport just got a makeover. Japan is issuing passports featuring art by ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai to Japanese citizens who applied after February 4. “Ukiyo-e” is a ...

The year is 1814 and a demure kimono-clad young woman walks across a crowded bridge in Japan’s capital city of Edo. Have we heard, she asks us, about “a nutty old man” who creates enormous paper ...