Description
This volume includes full-color reproductions of drawings and woodblock prints by Japan’s so much beloved artist. These landscapes-together with his famous perspectives of Mount Fuji- portraits of lovers and kabuki actors, nature and animal illustrations, in addition to scenes of day-to-day life in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Japan reveal the artist’s genius for rendering all kinds of subjects. Matthi Forrer discusses in his essay Hokusai’s life and lasting popularity whilst putting his work throughout the context of Eastern society and the work of his contemporaries.