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I n 1831, the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai immortalized a snow-covered Mount Fuji in the background of his famous woodblock print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa.Although the image of the ...
It is perhaps one of Japan’s most iconic scenes: the triangular form of Mount Fuji rising into blue skies, its snow-capped peak ... in a 19th-century woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai ...
Shin-hanga is a 20th-century take on ukiyo-e, an older form of Japanese woodblock printing, that evolved ... On the other hand, "Snow at Zojoji Temple," by shin-hanga artist Kawase Hasui, has ...
What would it feel like to be inside of this artwork? Image credit: Utagawa Kuniaki II, 1835 - 1888 (Japanese), Ōzumō Keiko no zu [Professional Sumo Wrestlers Practicing], 1866, woodcut on paper, 13 3 ...
Hasui Kawase was a Japanese artist known for his woodblock prints depicting landscapes and townscapes. He was a prominent figure in the shin-hanga movement. "In the case of printing we must interact ...
Landscape in Blue, color woodblock ... s Print Association, mounted their debut exhibition in Tokyo. Their bold, modernistic woodblocks, etchings and lithographs pushed the boundaries of Japan ...