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Katsushika Hokusai

867 works

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period. Read more

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Ink sketch of a robed standing scholar holding a plum branch, with a reclining figure sketched in the lower left corner.

Album of Sketches by Katsushika Hokusai and His Disciples

19th century

Ink and color painting of a reclining drunken man with a sword beside a box, on a fan-shaped sheet in a brocade-bordered scro

Drunken Asaina

ca. 1810

Hanging scroll of a robed archer with bow and arrows on a rocky slope with pine branches, by Katsushika Hokusai.

The Legendary Empress Jingū

dated 1847

Hanging scroll of seated warrior deity Guan Yu with red face and yellow robe, beside an attendant holding a tall halberd.

Guan Yu, Chinese God of War

19th century

Hanging scroll of a barefoot woman with flying hair raising a sword atop a wooden platform, with trees and banners below.

Sword Dancer

19th century

Red monochrome hanging scroll of Zhong Kui, a bearded armored demon queller holding a round object, by Hokusai.

Red Zhong Kui, the Demon Queller

1846

Ink painting of the demon queller Shōki holding a sword, in a hanging scroll with a red seal at lower right.

Black Shōki, the Demon Queller

1849

Hanging scroll of a bent fisherman with a triangular net on a pole and a basket, standing on a pale shoreline.

Fisherman

19th century

Hanging scroll of a woman spinning silk beside a child at a brazier, with three swallows flying above.

Woman Spinning Silk

dated 1790

Hanging scroll of a snowy winter scene with a pine tree over a shop front, figures, two cats and a paper umbrella.

In Front of a Shop

dated 1780

Ink and colour painting of wild geese above rippling water and reeds, with a flock flying in the upper left.

Wild Geese and Water

1839

Painting of a Buddha's hand citron branch with yellow finger-like fruit on a gray silk background, with a red seal.

Buddha’s Hand Citron (Busshukan)

mid-19th century

Hanging scroll of a blue kingfisher diving beside tall bulrushes with seed heads on a pale background.

Kingfisher and Bulrushes

19th century

Hanging scroll of Shōki raising a sword and gripping a blue demon by the head, on an ochre ground with brocade border.

Shōki, the Demon Queller

dated 1790

Ink drawing of a bamboo stalk with jointed nodes and drooping tapering leaves on pale paper.

Bamboo

18th-19th century

Pair of folding screens showing a coastal landscape with rocky shores, tall trees, thatched houses and a distant mountain.

Mount Fuji and Enoshima

1615

Ink sketch of a bearded man carrying a box with a boy holding a string attached to a small bird below.

Man and boy

1615

Ink line drawing of a smiling male dancer in a patterned robe, arms raised holding a fan, on pale paper.

Male dancer, Manzai

1615

Ink sketch of a smiling Sambaso dancer in a tall hat and flowing robes, bent in a twisting dance pose.

A Sambaso Dancer

1615

Ink line drawing of a seated musician in a robe playing a shamisen, with eyes closed, on beige paper.

Tuning the Samisen

1615

Twelve-panel gold folding screen with figures, a moon, river, trees and birds in misty landscape scenes.

Six Tama Rivers

1615

Painting of a child confronting a tiger that lunges toward an older man beneath a pine tree.

Filial piety: Yang Hsiang saving his father from a tiger

1615

Ink painting on a fan-shaped sheet showing a dark crow beside three red maple leaves, with a red seal at lower right.

Young Crow and Maple Leaves

1615

Small fan-shaped painting of a seated man with a fan, a white bowl, and butterflies above him.

A man with a fan, butterflies, and a bowl of water

1615

Ink sketch of a man sleeping face-down on tan paper, one arm stretched forward and his robe loosely draped.

Sleeping Man

1615

Ink painting of a dragon with clawed feet curling through dark swirling clouds, with calligraphy and a red seal at lower left

Dragon and clouds

1615

Hanging scroll with a fan-shaped painting of a flying cuckoo beside columns of black ink calligraphy.

Flying Cuckoo

1800

Goose

1615

Back view of a man in a blue robe and yellow trousers holding a cloth and carrying a broom at his waist.

Man with broom and cloth

1615

Hanging scroll of a long scaled dragon descending through dark clouds, mounted in gold-flecked silk brocade.

Descending dragon

1615

Ink painting on a hanging scroll of a standing figure in a grey robe and patterned kimono, holding a pink fan.

Young man

1615

Ink line drawing of a seated woman in a kimono holding a cat against her shoulder, on pale paper.

Lady Holding a Cat

1810

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period. His print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji includes The Great Wave off Kanagawa, and his sketchbooks, the Hokusai Manga, were widely studied in Japan and Europe. Browse 867 works by Katsushika Hokusai from 17 museums, free to download in HD.