Book is in very fine condition. Japanese import so the text is in Japanese. However, most of the book is comprised of sketches with no text.
Katsushika Hokusai (1760~1849)
Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period.
He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu, and other styles of Chinese painting.
Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print
series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji which includes the internationally recognized print,
The Great Wave off Kanagawa was published sometime between 1830 and 1833.
Hokusai created the "Thirty-Six Views" both as a response to a domestic travel boom
and as part of a personal obsession with Mount Fuji.
It was this series, specifically The Great Wave print and Fuji in Clear Weather,
that secured Hokusai’s fame both in Japan and overseas.
