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Katsushika Hokusai

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Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hokusai was instrumental in developing ukiyo-e from a style of portraiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals. His works had a significant influence on Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet during the wave of Japonisme that spread across Europe in the late 19th century.

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Cranes on snow-covered pine

1829 · Color woodblock print; vertical nagaban

52.4 × 23.5 cm (20 5/8 × 9 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)"

1826 · Color woodblock print; oban

25.4 × 37.6 cm (10 × 14 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

1825 · Color woodblock print; oban

25.4 × 37.6 cm (10 × 14 13/16 in.); Mat: 50.8 × 71.2 cm (20 × 28 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Shower Below the Summit (Sanka hakuu), from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

1825 · Color woodblock print, oban

25.7 × 37.6 cm (10 1/8 × 14 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Yahagi Bridge at Okazaki on the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō Okazaki Yahagi no hashi), from the series Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces (Shokoku meikyō kiran)

1824 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

H. 10 3/16 in. (25.9 cm); W. 15 1/16 in. (38.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cherry Blossoms at Yoshino (Yoshino), from the series Snow, Moon, and Flowers (Setsugekka)

1823 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

H. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm); W. 14 15/16 in. (37.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Suspension Bridge on the Border of Hida and Etchū Provinces (Hietsu no sakai tsuribashi), from the series Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces (Shokoku meikyō kiran)

1820 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

H. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm); W. 15 1/8 in. (38.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

1820 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

10 x 15 in. (25.4 x 38.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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