'Hokusai and Ukiyo-e' exhibit at Cleve Carney Museum of Art dives into Japan's Edo period Centered on the extraordinary appeal of “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” by Katsushika Hokusai, this ...

‘Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World, ... “The Great Wave” (ca. 1830-32) is part of Hokusai’s “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji” (the mountain is faintly visible in the background).

With all the usual “human problems” in the unending churn of doomy news, wandering through this year’s nature-focused The ...

College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn is celebrating Japan’s iconic Shogun era with a never-seen-in-the-U.S. art exhibit. “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World, Artworks from the Chiossone Collectio… ...

With no solid object of fixed colour against which to correlate, "blue" has historically had the capacity to range loosely over the colour spectrum. In the case of Japan, "ao" denoted a range of blue ...

Katsushika Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura) from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)" (ca. 1830–32). Collection of Metropolitan Museum of ...

The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai (1830-1832). The first and arguably most famous of the 'Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji' series, this ukiyo-e print has become the most recognisable ...

In the distance, Mount Fuji appears—tiny and serene. ... Hokusai turns the conventions of ukiyo-e on their head, placing the raw power of the sea at the heart of the composition.

Ukiyo refers to everyday life, and as its name suggests, ukiyo-e are woodblock prints showing common people’s daily scenes, and these prints became widely popular. 2. A series of prints by Katsushika ...

With the occasion of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, art galleries and museums throughout the Kansai region held special ...