Hokusai and ‘The Great Picture Book of Everything’: the latest research — blog.britishmuseum.org

For almost 200 years the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) has been astonishing the world with his famous colour woodblock print, Under the Wave off Kanagawa (1831), popularly called The Great Wave.  Hokusai was 72 when he designed this print and had already enjoyed success for most of his career. Even so, he never rested […] The post Hokusai and ‘The Great Picture Book of Everything’: the latest research first appeared on British Museum Blog.

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