Essays on Hokusai

The trade deals between Japan and Europe facilitated the entrance of Japanese prints, the ukiyo-e, in the Western world. In 1849 the first Japanese prints, belonging to Hokusai entered the West, sometime after the death of the Japanese artist. Nevertheless, the first recognizance of the Japanese influence in French art was marked by the Exposition Universelle from 1867, hosted at Champs de Mars, in Paris. Although Hokusai’s art was not much appreciated in Japan, where other, more elevated painting styles were preferred, the artist’s work found appreciation in French art, where it has become influential for reputable ...

Manga and anime are two of the most defining parts of the Japanese culture that are known worldwide. Considered as Japan’s authentic forms of animation, manga and anime play a big role in propelling the Japanese culture further into worldwide recognition. Manga is defined as the Japanese comic animation or the animation that the Japanese produce in print while anime refers to the Japanese digital animation or the animation that the Japanese produce digitally through multimedia. These two distinct forms of Japanese animation have been an integral part of popular culture for years in Japan and have played ...

The term “manga” refers to Japanese comics or comics written in the Japanese language with the use of specific Japanese style. Nowadays, the manga is popular not only in Japan but also all over the world. With the growth of the international popularity, it often becomes the object of condemnation due to its sensitive content. This paper aims to study the development of manga and the roles it has played in society at different times. During its history, the manga was mostly used for political mockery, but through the years, it became more diversified and started to be the ...

Ukiyo-e is the Japanese word for woodblock prints which have been strongly influenced by the China’s culture. At first it was an art solely meant to be distributed within the country but in 1853 upon the arrival of the Black Ships spearheaded by Commodore Matthew Perry, Japanese culture was diffused into the Western nations and aside from katana, Japanese woodblock prints became highly popular amongst artists in Europe and in the United States. To honor this, the Library of Congress’ prized collections of Japanese woodblock prints made by Hokusai and Hiroshige creates a strong link between the East ...

Katsushika Hokusai is a Japanese artist who has many works that are at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Among them, his most recognizable woodblock print, Under the Wave of Kanagawa. It is also know as the Great Wave, from his series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Many will know this image as it because it has been on posters, tee shirts places to show the image to the public. Few know the work belongs to Hokusai. Looking similar to Great Wave, both in color and in detail, is, Tsukuda-Jima in Musashi Province. A woodblock printing with ink shows fishermen ...

Katsushika Hokusai’s work of art titled “The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa” is off his woodblock print paintings is contained in the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. This woodblock artwork belongs to the Edo period. The substances of the paintings are highly visual, and visual language has been used to define the scenario in the painting. The view of Mount Fuji is distinct in the background of the canvas, and the background of the painting demonstrates a powerful imagery of the power of nature. Waves are shown crashing against two fishing boats (Dewitte, Larmann, and Shields). One ...