Katsushika Hokusai: A Life in Pictures

Art as life: Hokusai's life story, told through his greatest works.

Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) enjoyed one of the longest and most prolific careers of any Japanese artist of the nineteenth century. Living to the age of almost ninety was itself exceptional for the period, yet what is most striking is not his longevity, but the youthful vitality of his imagination to the very end of his life.

Katsushika Hokusai: A Life in Pictures traces Hokusai’s life and introduces his artistic vision thr...