Type “wave” into your smartphone and a Great Wave replica emoji pops up. Not even Mona Lisa has that! The Great Wave has a LEGO set. A Google search for “Hokusai Great Wave” brings back 3.6 million ...

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, from Drawings for a Three-Volume Picture Book (c.1823–33) The museum has now published the manuscript of nearly 200 ink-on-paper drawings for the first time, following a major ...

“Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave” at the British Museum is a tribute to the vitality of old age. The exhibition covers the artistic achievements of the last thirty years of the great Japanese artist ...

“Boy Viewing Mount Fuji” by Katsushika Hokusai (Edo period, 1839). Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk. (Gift of Charles Lang Freer, Freer Gallery of Art) Review by Philip Kennicott There are a lot ...

He called himself Old Man Crazy To Paint and made his best work in his 70s. As his dragons, deities, poets and wrestlers go on show, we look at the obsessions of the poster-boy for Japanese art Had ...

The MFA Boston shows how one of the greatest printmakers, from Edo Japan, inspired a tidal wave of followers, from Gauguin to Lichtenstein. By Jason Farago Jason Farago, a critic at large, reviewed ...