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Katsushika Hokusai

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Fan account of Hokusai, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. 1760-1849 Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 10h

Surugadai in Edo (Toto surugadai), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/24751/

Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 14h

Inume pass in the Kai province https://www.wikiart.org/en/katsushika-hokusai/inume-pass-in-the-kai-province

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Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 15h

Pages from the illustrated book "Panoramic Views along the Banks of the Sumida River (Ehon Sumidagawa ryogan ichiran)" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/33277/

Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 19h

Basket of Peonies https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.5

A surimono is a privately commissioned print used to announce or commemorate a special event. This picture celebrates an event in the life of the actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII, whose emblem was the peony. According to Japanese tradition, the peony--one of the flowers of the four seasons--is the flower of summer.

Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 21h

Sketch of Daruma https://www.wikiart.org/en/katsushika-hokusai/sketch-of-daruma

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Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 1d

Street scenes newly pubished https://www.wikiart.org/en/katsushika-hokusai/street-scenes-newly-pubished-2

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Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 1d

Vengeful ghost that manifests in physical (rather than spectral) form https://www.wikiart.org/en/katsushika-hokusai/vengeful-ghost-that-manifests-in-physical-rather-than-spectral-form

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Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 1d

Tama river in the Musashi province https://www.wikiart.org/en/katsushika-hokusai/tama-river-in-the-musashi-province

Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 1d

Lin Xiangru and Kojima Takanori, from the series "Five Sibling Pictures of China and Japan for the Zakurogaki Group (Zakurogaki-ren goban no uchi wakan e-kyodai)" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/81208/

Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 1d

Fuji with a Hat (Kasa Fuji): Detached page from One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei) Vol. 1 https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/147678

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel

Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 2d

Fuji Seen from the Dyers' Quarter (Kon'ya-chō no Fuji): Detatched Page from One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei) Vol. 2 https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/148142

Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 2d

Transmitting the Spirit and Revealing the Form of Things: Hokusai's Sketchbooks, vol. 10 https://collections.artsmia.org/art/68274/

Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 2d

The Toy Seller, illustration for The Fresh-Water Clam (Shijimigai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/23546/

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Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 2d

Mount Fuji from Lake Ashi in Hakone https://www.artic.edu/artworks/81763/

Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 2d

Cranes by the Shore, illustration for The Leg Shell (Ashigai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/23535/

Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 3d

Yoshitsune's Horse-washing Falls at Yoshino in Yamato Province (Washu Yoshino Yoshitsune uma arai no taki) from the series "A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri)" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/25198/

Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 3d

Sword Dancer https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/45817

The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936

Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 3d

Ebisu (God of Luck, Protector of Merchants) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/57283

Gift of Annette Young, in memory of her brother, Innis Young, 1956

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Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 3d

Maisaka, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/195468/

Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago

Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 3d

Kusatsu, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/3051/

Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 4d

The New Fields at Ōno in Suruga Province (Sunshū Ōno shinden), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55503

Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 4d

Pictorial envelope for Hokusa https://www.wikiart.org/en/katsushika-hokusai/pictorial-envelope-for-hokusai-s

Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 4d

Hibiscus and Sparrow https://collections.artsmia.org/art/8692/

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Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 4d

Kites at Tsuiji https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/74565

Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 4d

The poet Li Po https://www.wikiart.org/en/katsushika-hokusai/the-poet-li-po