To promote Japanese culture and fight forgeries, works of famed ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai of the Edo Period (1603-1867) will grace the new Japanese passport. Starting on Feb. 4 ...

For him, all Japanese art emerged from The Great Wave Off Kanagawa—everything from anime to Yoko Ono. Its influence could not be overstated. “Hokusai: Waves of Inspiration” just opened at ...

Source: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images HOKUSAI, directed by Hajime Hashimoto, is the opening film of this year’s Japanese Film Festival . It depicts the life of Hokusai and the ...

McConnell suggested Hokusai, and the others quickly agreed. "Just as I was finishing, someone who was a professor of Asian art set up shop in the alleyway there, and she delivered a whole lecture ...

Art historian Toshinobu ... judging from the style, sharp outline and the way the man's limbs were depicted. The portrait apparently was executed by Hokusai in his early 40s, based on kanji ...

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: ...

O-Ei marries a town painter, but she soon chooses art over marriage ... her own painting style. Katsushika Oi, known as O-Ei, is the third daughter of Katsushika Hokusai and she is an Ukiyo ...

the daughter of the Edo period master painter Katsushika Hokusai. Since her childhood, she was captivated by painting. O-Ei marries a town painter, but she soon chooses art over marriage and ...