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Hokusai (1760–1849)

Author of Hokusai: Prints and Drawings

124+ Works 1,532 Members 19 Reviews

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Image credit: Hokusai (Selbstbildnis)

Series

Works by Hokusai

Hokusai: Prints and Drawings (1988) 336 copies
Hokusai (1999) 156 copies, 1 review
Hokusai: One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji (1988) 131 copies, 2 reviews
Hokusai: 36 Views of Mt. Fuji (1968) 94 copies, 2 reviews
Hokusai (2006) — Artist; Artist — 51 copies, 1 review
Hokusai (2015) — Artist — 49 copies, 1 review
Hokusai Manga (2018) 47 copies
Hokusai's Views of Mt. Fuji (1965) 46 copies, 2 reviews
Hokusai Manga (2011) 33 copies, 1 review
Hokusai’s Landscapes: The Complete Series (2019) — Artist — 33 copies
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) (Library Of Japanese Art, No. 1) (1956) — Illustrator — 27 copies, 1 review
Hokusai (2019) — Artist — 19 copies
Mad about Painting (2023) 15 copies
Hokusai's Fuji (2024) 13 copies
Hokusai Mini (Prestel Minis) (2004) — Illustrator — 12 copies
Hokusai and his school : Japanese prints c. 1800-1840 (1982) — Illustrator — 8 copies
Views of Mt. Fuji (2013) 8 copies, 1 review
Hokusai (1977) 7 copies
Hokusai - Retrospektive (2011) — Illustrator — 3 copies
Hokusai (2009) 3 copies
Drawings of Hokusai (1969) 3 copies
The Great Wave 2 copies
Hokusai (2001) 2 copies
北斎絵本図録 (2002) 2 copies
Katsushika Hokusai - Paintings & Drawings (2018) 2 copies, 2 reviews
Hokusai Address Book — Illustrator — 1 copy
Hokusai: l´Expo 1 copy, 1 review
Hokusai Edehon Shusei (2018) 1 copy

Associated Works

Narrow Road to the Interior (2000) — Cover artist, some editions — 264 copies, 5 reviews
The Old Man Mad About Drawing: A Tale of Hokusai (1997) — Illustrator — 144 copies, 4 reviews
Mokusei! (1982) — Illustrator, some editions — 113 copies, 2 reviews
Hokusai Pop-Ups (2016) — Artist — 51 copies
An Introduction to Japanese Prints (1980) — Illustrator — 17 copies
De legende van koning aap (1979) — Illustrator, some editions — 14 copies
American Aphrodite (Volume Five, Number Eighteen) (1955) — Illustrator — 4 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 9, May 1981 (1981) — Illustrator — 3 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name
Hokusai
Legal name
Katsushika, Hokusai
Other names
Tokitarō
時太郎
In this Japanese name, the family name is "Katsushika".
Birthdate
1760-10-31
Date of death
1849-05-10
Gender
male
Education
Studio of Katsukawa Shunsho
Occupations
printmaker
artist
Nationality
Japan
Places of residence
Edo, Japan (now Tokyo)
Burial location
Seikyo-ji Temple, Asakusa, Japan
Map Location
Japon
Associated Place (for map)
Japan

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Reviews

19 reviews
I rate this alongside Kurosawa's Rashomon for the value in understanding points of view. Taken collectively they can be seen as a narrative. Changes in perspective, location, season, focus, landscape all make for views that nature and human transience should always be in our thoughts.
As a newbie regarding Asian art, I very much appreciated this simple and approachable edition of Hokusai's famous set of ukiyo-e prints from the 1830s. In addition to a robust historical and biographical introduction, Smith offers comprehensive analysis of each of the 102 images of Fuji created by the master of 19th century Japanese printmaking. This edition is informative and entertaining, I definitely recommend it for a rainy-day read.
What a marvelous book. The images of Fuji are amazing. I never thought about art from the point of view of the artist. I love the idea of looking at Fuji from so many perspectives. It opens up Japan in a way I never dreamed of.
Una raccolta di stampe del maestro Hokusai fatte negli anni '30 del XIX secolo. Una serie di trentasei viste del monte Fuji alla quale pochi anni dopo se ne aggiunsero altre dieci. Della prima serie fa parte la famosissima "Grande Onda". Il monte Fuji a volte è in primo piano maestoso, altre volte è piccolissimo sullo sfondo. Protagonista di tutte le stampe è la natura con un forte richiamo allo Shintoismo, a volte da sola, a volte in un contesto umano. Bellissime le "regole" geometriche show more delle opere ed il costante mischiarsi delle tecniche giapponesi, cinesi ed occidentali, con il Blu di Prussia, pigmento da poco scoperto. show less

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Works
124
Also by
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Members
1,532
Popularity
#16,794
Rating
4.1
Reviews
19
ISBNs
103
Languages
6

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