The Japanese painter and printmaker Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is considered one of the six great Ukiyo-e masters and the founder of the school of landscape artists that dominated this form during its last phase. While the Japanese wood block of...

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Hokusai: His Life and Work ALTHOUGH the Japanese taste for impressionists and post-impressionists, particularly Van Gogh, is firmly established in the sales rooms of the world, much less is known about the part played by Japanese ukiyo-e prints in the revolution that...

If you look up from the forests at the foot of Japan's Mount Fuji, the volcano's graceful slopes rise into the distance and peak in a nearly symmetrical, snowcapped cone.If you look down in the forests, however, you see something much less elegant: trash. Lots...