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Mt. Fuji art print, ‘The Kazusa Province Sea Route’ by Katsushika Hokusai

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17.The Kazusa Province Sea Route   Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) used the Prussian blue pigment also for the ukiyo-e art effectively. This woodblock printing seems to be drawn from the view point of Uraga Channel in the Kazusa Province (today’s Chiba Prefecture).   On the Boso Peninsula, there were many harbors including, Kemigawa Harbor, Kisarazu Harbor, and Yawata-ura.   We can see the […]

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Katsushika Hokusai’s Mt.Fuji art, ‘Tsukuda Island in Musashi Province’

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16.Tsukuda Island in Musashi Province One of the ukiyo-e art from “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji” by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849).      Several ships and two islands float on the Tokyo Bay. Ishikawa island is covered with trees on the left side and Tsukuda Island is the one where crowded with the fishermen’s houses on the right

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Famous The Great Wave Off Kanagawa art print, painted by Katsushika Hokusai

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The Japanese big wave art, The Great Wave off Kanagawa(kanagawa oki nami ura) ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ (woodblock printing) is one of the most famous art not only of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)‘s prints but also throughout the country(but actually, there are quite a few Japanese who do not know the title of the picture…). You might not be able to

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“Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces” ukiyo-e art prints by Utagawa Hiroshige

Paintings, Ukiyoe-wood block printing, Utagawa Hiroshige

“Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces”(六十余州名所図会) Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige (1797-1858) worked on the work of “Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces” in his later life from 1853 to 1856. Unlike “Fifty-Three Stages on the Tokaido“, he used a vertically long screen called Tate-e(立て絵). “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo ” is also the type of Tate-e.   Sponsored Links He completed

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Japanese wave arts “Oceans of Wisdom” by Katsushika Hokusai

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The Japanese wave arts of “Oceans of Wisdom “(One Thousand Images of the Sea) After the finish of “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” (富嶽三十六景）, the star ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai started the new series of the Japanese wave arts “One Thousand Images of the Sea” (Oceans of Wisdom,千絵の海) in 1833.  He had mainly depicted the combination of

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