
Katsushika Hokusai
1760–1849 · Japanese painting, Ukiyo-e · 27 works
Hokusai made Mount Fuji the recurring presence in a series of Japanese woodblock prints. Changing viewpoints bring the mountain into different relationships with the world around it. In The Great Wave, he makes the immense mountain appear small beneath the curling water.
27 works · 1775–1849
Find Mount Fuji in each print. How does its scale change the scene around it?
1775–1849 · 3 works
Walk these 31790–1804 · 12 works
Walk these 12
Risshi by the Sea Watching Birdslate 1700s–1849
Woman Spinning Silkdated 1790
Ichikawa Danjuro VIc. 1792/93
Monk Selling Ceremonial Tea Whisksc. 1802
Drunken Asainaca. 1810
Fisherman19th century
Guan Yu, Chinese God of War19th century
Two Figures19th century
Maisaka, from an untitled series of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaidoc. 1804
Mishima, from an untitled series of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaidoc. 1804
Okabe, from an untitled series of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaidoc. 1804
Shono, from an untitled series of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaidoc. 1804
1823–1849 · 12 works
Walk these 12Katsushika Hokusai was seventy when he began Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, the series that made landscape prints popular. Four of its views hang here, with a waterfall from a series of about 1833, two cranes on a tall sheet, and the demon queller Shōki, painted in ink alone in 1849, the year Hokusai died at about ninety.
In the museum: Ukiyo-e room · 7 works
An Illustrated New Edition of the Water Margin1823/25
A Mild Breeze on a Fine Dayc. 1830/33
Kajikazawa in Kai Provincec. 1830/33
Shower Below the Summitc. 1830/33
Under the Wave off Kanagawa1830/33
Flatfish, scorpion fish, and shells, from an untitled series of chuban printsc. 1831
Snowy Morning from Koishikawac. 1830/33
Viewing Sunset over the Ryogoku Bridge from the Onmaya Embankmentc. 1830/33
Crossing the Frozen Suwa Lake in Shinano Provincec. 1833/34
Yoro Waterfall in Mino Provincec. 1833
Cranes on snow-covered pinec. 1834
Black Shōki, the Demon Queller1849
Japanese painting · 8 works
Walk these 8Ukiyo-e · 7 works
Walk these 7Katsushika Hokusai was seventy when he began Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, the series that made landscape prints popular. Four of its views hang here, with a waterfall from a series of about 1833, two cranes on a tall sheet, and the demon queller Shōki, painted in ink alone in 1849, the year Hokusai died at about ninety.
In the museum: Ukiyo-e room · 7 works



