Hokusai
Biography
Hokusai (1760–1849) was a prolific Edo‑period print designer and painter who helped pivot ukiyo‑e from actor/beauty subjects to landscape. In his seventies he produced Thirty‑Six Views of Mount Fuji, a mature synthesis of technical daring, popular piety, and cross‑cultural pictorial ideas [1].
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Beauty in the Snow
Hokusai
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (complete set)
Hokusai
Fine Wind, Clear Morning (South Wind, Clear Sky) — 'Red Fuji'
Hokusai
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Hokusai (ca. 1830–32)
The Great Wave off Kanagawa distills a universal drama: fragile laboring boats face a <strong>towering breaker</strong> while <strong>Mount Fuji</strong> sits small yet immovable. Hokusai wields <strong>Prussian blue</strong> to sculpt depth and cold inevitability, fusing ukiyo‑e elegance with Western perspective to stage nature’s power against human resolve <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[3]</sup>.
The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (Tako to ama)
Hokusai (1814)
Rainstorm Beneath the Summit (Thunderstorm Beneath the Summit / Sanka Hakuu)
Hokusai
Kajikazawa in Kai Province (The Fisherman at Kajikazawa)
Hokusai
Ejiri in Suruga Province (Ejiri)
Hokusai
The Waterfall at Ono (from A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces)
Hokusai
A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces (complete series)
Hokusai