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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI

The Grand-Place in Brussels is seen covered with dahlias arranged in the design of Katsushika Hokusai's "The Great Wave" on Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 14, 2026
Brussels flower carpet pays homage to Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’
Some 750,000 dahlias are arranged in the design of the iconic work at an event to mark 160 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and Belgium.
Mayumi Nishikawa restores ukiyo-e in Dresden, Germany, in December.
JAPAN
May 13, 2026
Japanese restorer reviving ukiyo-e in Germany
The museum is promoting a project to sort and restore more than 10,000 Japanese artworks that have been kept in its repository.
London-based composer Dai Fujikura speaks during an interview in London on Oct. 6.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Nov 4, 2025
Hokusai-themed opera ‘The Great Wave’ to premiere in Scotland
The opera is the latest work by London-based composer Dai Fujikura and is a joint production with Scotland’s Scottish Opera.
Masami Nagasawa plays the talented but circumscribed offspring of a famed ukiyo-e artist in “Hokusai’s Daughter.”
CULTURE / Film
Oct 9, 2025
‘Hokusai’s Daughter’ captures the ferocity of a forgotten painter
Masami Nagasawa delivers one of her most compelling performances yet in Tatsushi Omori’s historical biopic.
Retired management professor and trekker Jitendra V. Singh completed his goal of collecting all 46 prints in the series “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji” in 2023.
CULTURE / Art
Mar 23, 2024
One collector’s high mountain road to Hokusai
A professor’s 30-year dream of assembling a complete set of “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji,” the pinnacle of the artist’s career, leads to an auction.
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2023
‘Great Wave’ print sells for $2.76 million, setting new record for Hokusai
The work, formally titled ‘Under the Wave off Kanagawa,’ sold during a live auction featuring Japanese and Korean art at Christie’s auction house.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 3, 2020
The battle of ukiyo-e: Hokusai vs. his pupils
Refusing to be bound by tradition or convention, Hokusai bent rules and sought inspiration from all corners — but how did such audacity influence his own students and followers?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 23, 2018
Kazuo Okada’s all-star cast of Asian art
To celebrate its fifth anniversary, the Okada Museum of Art in Hakone is bringing out all its major works by the masters — from 16th- and 17th-century Rinpa painters Tawaraya Sotatsu and Ogata Korin to 18th- and 19th-century ukiyo-e artists Kitagawa Utamaro and Katsushika Hokusai.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 25, 2018
Hokusai: Examining the enduring allure of a Japanese icon
Hokusai’s thirst for new forms of expression and willingness to abandon established techniques continues to intrigue the world today.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Dec 19, 2016
Museum dedicated to Hokusai opens
A museum honoring Katsushika Hokusai, a ukiyo-e artist in the Edo Period, has opened in Tokyo’s Sumida Ward.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 20, 2015
Keiichi Hara’s new animation honors Hokusai’s daughter
Ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai is one of 91AV原创 best-known artists. His print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” with its giant blue wave curling over a tiny Mount Fuji, is seen on T-shirts and coffee mugs around the world. Given his multifarious talent, vast energy and long life — Hokusai died in...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 4, 2014
‘Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji’
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), one of the most renowned ukiyo-e artists of the late Edo Period (1603-1868), is still, even 165 years after his death, growing in popularity worldwide.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jul 5, 2014
Off the beaten path on 91AV原创 paper trail
At a little roadside store in rural Nagano, a foreign tourist is miming a rice bowl with her cupped left hand. Firm in the belief that Japanese washi (paper — wa meaning Japanese and shi meaning paper) was made from rice, she waves her flattened right hand across the “bowl,” miming her desire for “sheets“...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 28, 2014
The ‘Great Wave’ that reached the West
Ukiyo-e prints could be found in Europe from at least 1795 at the Cabinet des Estampes at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. It was not until the 1850s, however, when trade between Japan and Europe began to flourish, that the craze for things Japanese began to crescendo.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 5, 2014
‘Mt. Fuji, Cherry Blossoms, and Flowers in Spring’
Yamatane Museum of Art is saluting last year’s inclusion of Mount Fuji as a World Cultural Heritage Site with this special and classic exhibition of Mount Fuji works.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
Baku championships showcase rising standards in global sumo
Ryan Roddy (second from left back) is pictured with the Ireland sumo team at this month's World Sumo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.

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