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Hokusai Katsushika

[Japanese Ukiyo-e Printmaker, 1760-1849]

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Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
Many works by Hokusai Katsushika online

Hokusai Katsushika at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Hokusai Katsushika

Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK

Hokusai Museum, Obuse, Japan

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Hokusai Katsushika at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
The Great Wave at Kanagawa, ca.1831-33 (Zoom)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City  
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

Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, California   NEW!
Fuji Behind the Waves off Kanagawa (The Great Wave), woodcut, 1831-33

Art Fund for UK Museums

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
A total of 10 prints online

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Fuji in Fair Weather

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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Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland   NEW!
7 prints online

Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland   NEW!
5 prints online

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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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)   NEW!  

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   NEW!

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

Professional Tools:
Signatures of Ukiyo-e Artists
Includes a brief description of how to interpret a Ukiyo-e signature

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Hokusai Katsushika in the Artchive  

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Under Mannenbashi Bridge in Fukagawa

Hokusai Katsushika at CGFA  

Hokusai Katsushika in the WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Artyzm

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Jim Breen's Ukiyo-E Gallery  
Additional unidentified works by Hokusai

Jim Breen's Ukiyo-E Gallery  

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

 
Other Web Sites:
J. Noel Chiappa

Japanese Woodblock Prints: Pictures of the Fleeting World
The Great Wave
Dragon Over Mount Fuji
The Red Fuji


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

Ukiyo-e: The Pictures of the Floating World

Unofficial site about the Hokusai Museum, Obuse, Japan

Viewing Japanese Prints

 
Articles:
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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

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
"The Many Faces of Hokusai," article by Roderick Conway Morris

  
 
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Hokusai Katsushika: Great Wave
Great Wave


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Hokusai Katsushika: Kirifuri Waterfall at Mt. Kurokami
Kirifuri Waterfall at Mt. Kurokami


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Old Tiger in the Snow
Old Tiger in the Snow


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Choshi in the Province of Shimosa
Choshi in the Province of Shimosa


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Fuji Above the Lightning
Fuji Above the Lightning


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Hokusai Katsushika: Crane
Crane


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Boy On Mt. Fuji
Boy On Mt. Fuji

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