An illustrated overview of Katsushika Hokusai, this book introduces the vast oeuvre of the artist best known for his woodblock print series "Thirty-Six Views at Mt Fuji".
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SEIJI NAGATA (1951- ) is at present vice director and curator-in-chief of the Ota Memorial Museum of Art, Tokyo. In 1990, he established the Katsushika Hokusai Museum of Art in Tsuwano, Shimane Prefecture. His principal published works include (in Japanese) surveys of various aspects of Hokusai's art, The Hokusai Museum (five vols., 1990), and Essays on Katsushika Hokusai (1994).
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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"Katsushika Hokusai made his artistic debut in 1779 at the age of nineteen as a pupil of Katsukawa Shunsho (1726-92), active at the time as a master of the yakusha nigao-e (likenesses"" of well-known Kabuki actors)." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
polychrome prints, hanging scroll, landscape prints, art manuals, brush paintings, famous sights Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Katsushika Hokusai Museum of Art, New Year, Hokusai Manga, Kyokutei Bakin, Azuma Asobi, Hokusai Tokimasa, Peter Morse Collection, Shokoku Taki Meguri, Sumida City, Nurse's Illustrated Hyakunin Isshu, One Hundred Ghost Stories, Daishi Exorcising the Demon, Fine Day, Hokusai Shashin Gafu, Mild Breeze, The Fifty-three Stations, Tokyo National Museum, Unusual Views of Celebrated Bridges, Yanagawa Shigenobu New!
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"Katsushika Hokusai made his artistic debut in 1779 at the age of nineteen as a pupil of Katsukawa Shunsho (1726-92), active at the time as a master of the yakusha nigao-e (likenesses"" of well-known Kabuki actors)." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
polychrome prints, hanging scroll, landscape prints, art manuals, brush paintings, famous sights Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Katsushika Hokusai Museum of Art, New Year, Hokusai Manga, Kyokutei Bakin, Azuma Asobi, Hokusai Tokimasa, Peter Morse Collection, Shokoku Taki Meguri, Sumida City, Nurse's Illustrated Hyakunin Isshu, One Hundred Ghost Stories, Daishi Exorcising the Demon, Fine Day, Hokusai Shashin Gafu, Mild Breeze, The Fifty-three Stations, Tokyo National Museum, Unusual Views of Celebrated Bridges, Yanagawa Shigenobu New!
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- Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters by Lawrence Bickford in Back Flap
- Masterpieces of Japanese Prints: The European Collections Ukiyo-E from the Victoria and Albert Museum by Richard Lane in Back Flap
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