katsushika, hokusai

Presents an illustrated look at the life of Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period, Katsushika Hokusai.

Contains nearly sixty woodcut prints from Katsushika Hokusai's manga series, and features candid sketches of figures from various social classes, seascapes, animals, and mythical creatures; and provides a brief biography of the nineteenth-century Japanese artist.

Contains color reproductions of forty-six prints representing nineteenth-century Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai's complete series of paintings of Mount Fuji, each with commentary.

Provides an introduction to the Japanese city of Edo in the early nineteenth-century, and the life and work of artist Hokusai, through the illustrated story of Kiku and Yoshi, two children who go to visit with their grandfather.

Tojiro, a young seller of rice cakes in the Japanese capital of Edo, later known as Tokyo, is amazed to discover that the grumpy and shabby old man who buys his cakes is a famous artist renowned for his sketches, prints, and paintings of flowers, animals, and landscapes.

An illustrated exploration of the life and work of famous Japanese artist Hokusai.