Hokusai Manga

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Hokusai Manga

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Even today, Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) is regarded as the archetypal ‘Japanese artist’, both in Japan and internationally. Early western evaluations of the history of ukiyo-e saw him as the late saviour of a style in decay, but Hokusai was a contemporary of classical-period artists, training in the studio of Katsukawa Shunshō (1726–92) from 1779. His popular illustrated manga volumes were conceived as early as 1812, when Hokusai enjoyed a sketching visit to his friend Gekkotei Bokusen (17...

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Format

Image

Date created

1878

Creator

Katsushika Hokusai

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1529144

Related subjects

Landscapes (Representations) / Social life / Physiognomy / Supernatural / Animals / Japanese / Japan (Nihon) / paper / artists' books / works on paper / printing / Late Edo / Nagoya

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