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1/21/2011

Ukiyoe by Katsushika Hokusai


19-inch LCD Digital Art "Thirty-six Views Fugaku" "Ukiyoe by Katsushika Hokusai"













Katsushika Hokusai 〈1760-1849) is an active ukiyoe master in Edo period in Japan, and he is one person who especially represents latter term.

There are 『富嶽三十六景』'36 Views of Mt.Fuji' and 『北斎漫画』'Hokusai cartoon' in his most important work, and it is a celebrated painter worldwide.

Hokusai tried to draw all of this world completely.

He researched the copperplate print and pictures on glass in later years.

Moreover, he was interested in the oil painting but he could not achieve after all in the long life.

He was chosen only as a Japanese by project "100 people in the world who left the most important achievements of this 1000 years" of the magazine 'Life' of the United States in 1999.

There were extremely a lot of numbers of his pupils. It is said that there were almost 200 people including the favorite pupil.

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