There’s a good chance you’ve seen “The Great Wave,” Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai’s iconic 19th century woodblock print of a towering blue ocean crest. The image has been adored, co-opted and ...

The Freer Gallery—home to the largest collection of the popular Japanese artist’s paintings—unveils 120 rarely seen works Roger Catlin - Museums Correspondent Katsushika Hokusai was in his 70s by the ...

There’s a curious thing about Katsushika Hokusai’s Under the Wave off Kanagawa – the renowned Japanese woodblock print that has come to be known, simply, as The Great Wave. Although the composition is ...

Type “wave” into your smartphone and a Great Wave replica emoji pops up. Not even Mona Lisa has that! The Great Wave has a LEGO set. A Google search for “Hokusai Great Wave” brings back 3.6 million ...

The MFA Boston shows how one of the greatest printmakers, from Edo Japan, inspired a tidal wave of followers, from Gauguin to Lichtenstein. By Jason Farago Jason Farago, a critic at large, reviewed ...

Katsushika Hokusai, from Drawings for a Three-Volume Picture Book (c.1823–33) The museum has now published the manuscript of nearly 200 ink-on-paper drawings for the first time, following a major ...

Although The Great Wave off Kanagawa is one of the most famous works of art ever made, relatively little is known about its ...

The Sumida Hokusai Museum, dedicated solely to the work of Japanese woodcut artist Katsushika Hokusai, opened yesterday, November 22, in the Tokyo neighborhood of Sumida—the very area in which Hokusai ...

Known as the creator of the world-famous Great Wave off Kanagawa, Hokusai constantly innovated and improved his craft through a long lifetime in Edo’s art world. In a famous afterword to an edition of ...

Foreigner/Katsushika Hokusai Travel Portrait is a 1/7th scale statue of the character. She’ll be almost 10 inches tall. Instead of her kimono, she is wearing the modern clothing she does in the ...

This is the swimsuit variant of Katsushika Hokusai. The typical version of her is Foreigner and involves her wearing a kimono. In Fate/Grand Order, the Servant appeared as part of the All In! Las ...

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