KYOTO -- A special exhibition, "Hokusai and Hiroshige: Works from the Hara Yasusaburo Collection," is underway at the Museum ...

Known as the creator of the world-famous Great Wave off Kanagawa, Hokusai constantly innovated and improved his craft through a long lifetime in Edo’s art world. In a famous afterword to an edition of ...

There’s a good chance you’ve seen “The Great Wave,” Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai’s iconic 19th century woodblock print of a towering blue ocean crest. The image has been adored, co-opted and ...

Katsushika Hokusai, “Under the wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave)” (1831) from Thirty-six views of Mt. Fuji, color woodblock, (all images courtesy of the British Museum) Katsushika Hokusai, “Shōki ...

Katsushika Hokusai’s Japanese woodblock print colloquially known as “The Great Wave” stands as one of the most famous and widely reproduced images in the world. The famed composition crops up on ...

Kendall DeBoer, assistant curator of contemporary art at the MFA, walks through “Boru Sibaso Paet, on the foam of the primordial sea,” Linda Sormin’s interactive mixed-media installation at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By the time Katsushika Hokusai painted The Great Wave he was already a celebrity in Japan. The iconic print was produced in 1831 ...

‘Yi Di (Giteki) orders the people to use rice juice to brew wine’: Yi Di is said to be one of the earliest brewers of rice wine, which he presented to Yu the Great of the Xia dynasty. In this comic ...

Katsushika Hokusai, ‘Mount Fuji viewed from the sea,’ from One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji, ca. 1834. British Museum., Author provided By the time Katsushika Hokusai painted The Great Wave he was ...