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 ...

Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon (2015) by Christine M. E. Guth Courtesy the author and University of Hawaii Press Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon (2015) by Christine ...

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‘Yi Di (Giteki) orders the people to use rice juice to brew wine’: Yi Di is said to be one of the earliest brewers of rice wine, which he presented to Yu the Great of the Xia dynasty. In this comic ...

Biography of the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), most famous for his print The Great Wave. It focuses on Hokusai's work, life and times in Edo, now modern Tokyo. Show more The first UK ...

On Saturday, June 21, the Cleve Carney Museum of Art and the McAninch Arts Center are celebrating this summer’s must-see exhibition, “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World, Artworks from the Chiossone ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...