Katsushika Hokusai was a brilliant artist, ukiyo-e painter and print maker, best known for his wood block print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which contain the prints The Great Wave and Fuji in Clear Weather. Hokusai’s artistic influence has stretched to have affected the Art Nouveau style in Europe, including Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.” View Artist Collection
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About Poem By Kan Ke Katsushika Hokusai Japanese Woodcut Ukiyoe Painting
In this picture Hokusai creatively conflated two events associated with the great statesman and poet Sugawara Michizane (844-903), also known as Kan Ke. Once, when traveling in autumn with emperor Uda they stopped at a Shinto shrine renowned for its maple trees. Etiquette prevented Michizane from making an offering at the same time as the emperor, so he composed the poem recorded here in the square box in the upper left corner of the print
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Poem By Kan Ke - Katsushika Hokusai - Japanese Woodcut Ukiyo-e Painting by Katsushika Hokusai. Bigger the better. Our life size posters are produced on acid-free 220 GSM papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a sufficent white border around the image to allow for future framing, if desired. Product will be shipped in 2-3 days