Hokusai

Hokusai features more than 170 works created by the everlastingly popular artist, Katsushika Hokusai. The works span across his entire career and feature woodblock prints, rare paintings on silk never-before-seen in Australia, hand-printed manga (illustrated books) and one of the most recognisable and reproduced images in the history of Asian art, ‘The great wave’.

Image:
Japanese 1760–1849 The great wave off Kanagawa (The great wave) (Kanagawa oki namiura) (1830–34)
from the Thirty-six views of Mt Fuji (Fugaku-sanjū-rokkei) series
Colour woodblock
25.7 × 37.7 cm (image and sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1909 (426-2)