How many pieces of The Great Wave Off Kanagawa still exist? “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” from “Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji”, created by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) when he was in his 70s, is one of the most famous ukiyo-e prints. Approximately 100 copies of “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” remain in existence around the […]
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All prints of Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji will be auctioned next March Christie’s, a major London auction house, announced on September 29th that all 46 works in the series “Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji” by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), an ukiyo-e artist from the late Edo period, will be auctioned as a set next
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What is the difference between ukiyo-e and shinhanga? Ushibori, by Kawase Hasui Among Japanese art, “ukiyo-e”, which was very popular around the Edo period, is still very popular. The techniques of artists such as Kitagawa Utamaro (?-1806), Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), at the time had a great influence on Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
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