Katsushika Hokusai - Hokusai Manga Zuroku Ⅱ - by Unsodo, Kyoto, Japan.
Artist
Katsushika Hokusai (1760~1849)
Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period.
He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu, and other styles of Chinese painting.
Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print
series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji which includes the internationally recognized print,
The Great Wave off Kanagawa was published sometime between 1830 and 1833.
Hokusai created the "Thirty-Six Views" both as a response to a domestic travel boom
and as part of a personal obsession with Mount Fuji.
It was this series, specifically The Great Wave print and Fuji in Clear Weather,
that secured Hokusai’s fame both in Japan and overseas.
Book Name
Hokusai Manga Zuroku Ⅱ
by Katsushika Hokusai
"Hokusai Manga" was bestseller of the late Edo period,
which had a tremendous impact on the European Impressionists at that time.
Hokusai Manga contain everything
such as monster , the person, history, customs, plants and animals ,
this is a large encyclopedia of painting depicting all kinds of things of this world.
Date Published
06-2001
Approx Book Size
Height 18.00 cm x Width 25.40 cm
(H 7.08" x W 10.00")
Number of pages
111 Pages
(It is written in only Japanese)
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