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High-tech spin for samurai-era ukiyo-e artist Hokusai at Tokyo exhibit • Feb. 5, 2025, 1:21 AM ET (Straits Times)

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Also Known As Iitsu • Manji • Gakyōjin • Taito • Katsushika Hokusai • Shunrō • Sōri • Kakō
Born October 1760 • Tokyo • Japan
Died May 10, 1849 (aged 88) • Tokyo • Japan
Movement / Style uki-e • ukiyo-e

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Hokusai: The Breaking Wave off Kanagawa
Hokusai: woodcut of a woman in a brothel doorway
Hokusai: Detail of Woodcutter Gazing at Waterfall
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Utamaro: Woman Wiping Sweat
Utamaro
Japanese artist
Okumura Masanobu: woodcut of Sugawara Michizane
Okumura Masanobu
Japanese artist
Utagawa Kunisada
Utagawa Kunisada
Japanese artist
Lucas Cranach, the Elder
German painter
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
Amman, Jost: The Miner
Jost Amman
German engraver
Utagawa Kuniyoshi: woodcut of Miyamoto Musashi
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Japanese artist
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
German painter
Bonnard, Pierre: Place Clichy
Pierre Bonnard
French artist
Georges Rouault
French artist
David Hockney
David Hockney
British artist
Jacques Villon
French painter
Audubon, James John: Blue Jay
Robert Havell, Jr.
American painter
“Battle of Alexander at Issus,” detail of an oil painting on panel by Albrecht Altdorfer, 1529; in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Albrecht Altdorfer
German artist
Reginald Marsh
Reginald Marsh
American artist
“Still Life,” oil on canvas by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1866; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Henri Fantin-Latour
French painter
Macbeth and Banquo encounter the Three Witches, illustration by John Gilbert for an edition of Shakespeare's works, 1858–60.
Sir John Gilbert
British painter
Everdingen, Allaert van: Swedish Landscape with a Waterfall
Allaert van Everdingen
Dutch painter
Ike Taiga
Japanese painter

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