To promote Japanese culture and fight forgeries, works of famed ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai of the Edo Period (1603-1867) will grace the new Japanese passport. Starting on Feb. 4 ...

What kind of relationship did Japanese people and animals have during the early modern Edo period (1603–1868)? An exhibition ...

Tanaka plays the older Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), a renowned ukiyo-e woodblock artist in the Edo Period (1603-1867), in the latter half of "Hokusai," taking over the role from Yuya Yagira ...

The act of painting was always kurara to O-Ei, the daughter of the Edo period master painter Katsushika Hokusai. Since her childhood, she was captivated by painting. O-Ei marries a town painter ...

The act of painting was always kurara to O-Ei, the daughter of the Edo period master painter Katsushika Hokusai. Since her childhood, she was captivated by painting. O-Ei marries a town painter ...

Shunga is a type of Japanese art by famous ukiyo-e artists of the Edo Period, such as Utamaro, Hokusai, and Kiyonaga, but the artform’s development was thwarted by social norms that tabooed sex.

And it's how the most famous of all Japanese images, Hokusai's 'Great Wave', is sometimes ... should it become necessary, to return to Edo in the ensuing spring with a much larger force." ...

woodblock print, from the series Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces (Shokoku meikyo kiran), signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu (Brush of Iitsu ... East Sea Road] connecting Edo and Kyoto ...