Leiden museum hokusai prints

This exhibition comes with a Japanese print artist Katsushika Hokusai () had an extensive career that witnessed a multiplicity of artistic impacts deriving from both Japanese ideals and non- Japanese innovations.

Siebold collected various of his

The National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden has a fascinating group of European-influenced paintings by Hokusai on Dutch paper, which I was very eager to see. They are extremely vivid and detailed with many of the compositions acting as important precursors to his designs for the 36 Views of Mt Fuji.

Japanmuseum SieboldHuis: Japanese woodblock prints

The National Museum of Daan Kok will show us objects from the collection of Museum Volkenkunde such as preparatory sketches by Hokusai, Kuniyoshi, Kunisada, and Kyōsai, sets of printing blocks, the tools to cut these, printing tools, and the final woodblock prints, all from the collection of Museum of Volkenkunde.

A Dutch art historian says Since the early 20th century, the Rijksmuseum's collection of Japanese prints has grown to include over 5, Japanese prints, albums and illustrated books. The collection includes important works by famous artists such as Utamaro, Hokusai and Hiroshige from the Edo period.

Japanmuseum SieboldHuis: Japanese woodblock prints We like mysteries, don’t we? Today we go for this fabulous Hokusai self-portrait as a drawing at the end of a letter to some unidentified publisher. It is signed Hachiemon 八右衛門 with the seal Manji 卍, adding his age as 83 years old 八十三歳, so we know this must date from

Late Hokusai works, including the The author at the Volkenkunde Museum, Leiden, viewing Hokusai's self portrait, Jan It is not so difficult to walk into a museum and see woodblock prints designed by Hokusai. It much rarer and exciting however, to see paintings and letters by the hand of the artist.

Hokusai's most iconic print, The Great Hokusai, Hiroshige, Kunisada, Sharaku and Utamaru are world famous woodblock artists. Stand face to face with a Hokusai print in our Panorama room and discover several Japanese paintings and prints including works by Hokusai.

Starting on February 2, Japanese print artist Katsushika Hokusai () had an extensive career that witnessed a multiplicity of artistic impacts deriving from both Japanese ideals and non- Japanese innovations.