Hokusai and His Age: Ukiyo-e Painting, Printmaking and Book Illustration in Late Edo Japan

This lavishly illustrated book, which collects essays by distinguished specialists in Japanese art, presents a wide range of scholarship on the Edo artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) and his immediate artistic and literary circles. Although best known for his landscape print series, Hokusai also excelled in book illustration, erotica, privately commissioned woodcuts, and paintings of historical and legendary themes. This volume provides new insights into the diverse aspects of Hokusai’s life and work in essays by Asano Shugo, Gian Carlo Calza, John T Carpenter, Timothy Clark, Doris Croissant, Julie Nelson Davis, Roger Keyes, Kobayashi Fumiko, Kobayashi Tadashi, Kubota Kazuhiro, Naito Masato, David Pollack, John M Rosenfield, Timon Screech, Henry D Smith II and Tsuji Nobuo.

Hokusai and His Age is published by Hotei Publishing in co-operation with The International Hokusai Research Centre, University of Venice, The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, and The Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University.

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