Hokusai Katsushika Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Cherry Blossoms at Gotenyama, ca.1829-33
Hokusai Katsushika at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Hokusai Museum, Obuse, Japan
Hokusai Katsushika at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
The Great Wave at Kanagawa, ca.1831-33
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Prints/drawing collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Hokusai Katsushika at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Mount Fuji in clear weather with a southerly breeze, ca.1831
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Wetmore Print Collection at Connecticut College
1 print online
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
A total of 10 prints online
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Fuji in Fair Weather
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
A courtesan sleeping
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
Man with futon
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin
South Breeze, Fine Weather, Gaifu kaisei ("Red Fuji")
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
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Hammer Museum, California
Fuji Behind the Waves off Kanagawa (The Great Wave), woodcut, 1831-33
Hammer Museum, California
Fuji from Honganji Temple in Asakusa, Edo, 1831-33
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art at Ohio State University, Columbus
2 works online
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Magyar Nemzeti Galéria (Hungarian National Gallery), Budapest
The Great Wave, woodcut, 1831
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
6 works online
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Pilgrims at Kirifuri Waterfall on Mount Kurokami
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch) 
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, California
San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Mount Fuji Seen from Waterwheel at Onden, woodblock print
Seattle Art Museum
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Hokusai Katsushika at the Smithsonian Sackler-Freer Gallery, Washington D.C.
Mini-site for the 2006 exhibition Hokusai: Mad about Painting
State Museums of Berlin
Hokusai Katsushika at the The British Museum, London, UK
Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa, Israel
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
7 prints online
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
5 prints online
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Comparison of Genroku Poem Shells: Abalone, 1821
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Signatures of Ukiyo-e Artists
Includes a brief description of how to interpret a Ukiyo-e signature
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Hokusai Katsushika in the Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Under Mannenbashi Bridge in Fukagawa
Hokusai Katsushika at CGFA
Google Art Project NEW!
Thunder God (Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)
Hokusai Katsushika in the WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Artliste
Image archive with zoomable images
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Jim Breen's Ukiyo-E Gallery
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
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Miscellaneous Sites:
J. Noel Chiappa's Home Page
Nagoya TV Server - Ukiyo-e Museum
Actor paper dolls, Ichikawa Yaozo II
Nagging old woman
Nagoya TV Server - Ukiyo-e Museum
Uki-e of the Toeizan central hall
Nihonbashi
Nagoya TV Server - Ukiyo-e Museum
Nagoya TV Server - Ukiyo-e Museum
Battle between two warriors
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Ukiyo-e: The Pictures of the Floating World
Unofficial site about the Hokusai Museum, Obuse, Japan
Viewing Japanese Prints
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Hokusai Katsushika 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"The Many Faces of Hokusai," article by Roderick Conway Morris
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Hokusai: Genius of the Japanese Ukiyo-E
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Hokusai: One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji
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Hokusai
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