A sell-out exhibition at the British Museum has proved once again the popularity of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, whose Great Wave is said to be the world's most reproduced image.

A resident of Gunma Prefecture donated the portrait to the Hokusai Museum here at the end of last year. Art historian Toshinobu Yasumura, who heads the museum, noted that the drawing carries the ...

Sponsored by The Asahi Shimbun and other entities, “The Beauty of Shunga--Hokusai and Utamaro ... display was taboo in Japan until the British Museum in London hosted a special exhibition ...

Yet Hokusai has drawn the sea over which these ... it could be highly profitable. The British Museum has three impressions of 'The Great Wave'. This is an early one, taken when the woodblock ...