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Japanese woodblock print of a pine bonsai in a blue landscape bowl with a hanging cloth and lacquered tray.

Talisman for driving off evil spirits (Mayoke) (CBL J 2175)

Katsushika Hokusai

Japanese surimono print of a kneeling woman in a kimono beside a screen, with a mountain tray and calligraphy on the wall.

Stone (Ishi). Surimono by Katsushika Hokusai (CBL J 2176)

Katsushika Hokusai

Japanese woodblock print of a horseback rider and attendants beside a glass case with a miniature rock garden and verse.

Minase-gai

Katsushika Hokusai, 1821

Japanese print of a seated man reading a poem slip beside a plum branch, with calligraphy text on the left.

Jōsuitei Shitami studying a poem slip (CBL J 2297)

Katsushika Hokusai, 1797

Double-page Japanese woodblock book spread with four scenes of children and lucky gods under pine trees, in muted colours.

Perfect Pictures at a Glance

Katsushika Hokusai

Open book page with four panels of ink drawings showing children at play, a drum beneath pine, and gods of fortune.

Picture Album Transmitting the Spirit: The Hokusai Drawing Style

Katsushika Hokusai

Woodblock print of folded papers, a patterned box, a blue ceramic bowl and a shell fan, with poem text above.

Iro-gai

Katsushika Hokusai, 1821

Woodblock book page with ink landscapes of sea waves, hills and birds on the left and a rocky mountain on the right.

Various Pictures by Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai

Dark green bound sketchbook cover with a vertical red-lettered title label and red binding cord along the spine.

Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 6 of Hokusai Sketchbooks

Katsushika Hokusai

Print of a merchant calculating accounts on an abacus in a Japanese room, with two seated figures nearby.

A merchant making up the account

Katsushika Hokusai

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a veil on a veranda, with a rabbit rowing a crescent moon above her.

Woman watching a rabbit row the crescent moon (CBL J 2168)

Katsushika Hokusai

Woodblock print of women in kimono behind a slatted railing watching a bird, with calligraphy below.

Women of the Daimonjiya watching a cuckoo (CBL J 2189)

Katsushika Hokusai

Japanese print of a tall oiran courtesan in a blossom-patterned kimono beside a young attendant holding a doll.

Hokusai Oiran and Kamuro

Katsushika Hokusai

Print of a brown sparrow in flight beside a pair of scissors with a red tassel on a cream background.

Pair of sissors and sparrow

Katsushika Hokusai

Color print of a woman with elaborate hairpins holding a pink fan, against a grey background.

Hokusai Portrait of a woman holding a fan

Katsushika Hokusai

Stylized wave with curling foam in blue and grey-green, set against a dark starry indigo arc, in Japanese print style.

'Feminine Wave'

Katsushika Hokusai

Two women in patterned kimono stand against a golden sky; one holds a lantern, the other a folding fan, with misty hills abov

Hokusai 3

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll of two sparrows, one in flight and one on a rock, beside autumn grasses and flowers on a pale yellow ground.

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) Sparrows and Autumn Grasses

Katsushika Hokusai, 1760

Close-up of a dark knife blade slicing into a red watermelon slice against a cream background.

Close-up Suika-zu

Katsushika Hokusai

Hokusai print of an armoured archer aiming a bow at struggling giant figures under a pine, with a standing giant and birds.

Chinzei Hachirō Tametomo by Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai

Golden dragon coiling through black smoke above a pale gold Mount Fuji, with trees and rocks in the foreground.

Dragon flying over Mount Fuji

Katsushika Hokusai

Monochrome Japanese print of warriors, a dragon, and a woman with a staff in a dense battle scene.

Hokusai 001

Katsushika Hokusai

Painting of a striped tiger walking through falling snow beneath snow-laden pine branches.

Hokusai, Tiger in the Snow

Katsushika Hokusai, 1849

Woman in a blue kimono holding a fan in falling snow, with vertical calligraphy above her on a gold background.

HokusaiSnowWoman

Katsushika Hokusai

Ink and light color painting of a right-eye flounder on beige paper, with wavy seaweed lines and a red seal at right.

A right-eye karei fish (flounder) by Katsushika Hokusai, sumi and light color on paper

Katsushika Hokusai

Edge of a Japanese print showing handwritten characters, a red seal, and a measuring scale numbered 73 to 89.

King Fisher and Bulrushes

Katsushika Hokusai

Golden screen painting of a phoenix with green, red and white plumage and long eyed tail feathers.

Phoenix Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai, 1835

Japanese print of two severed heads lying among bamboo stalks, one with a rope trailing across the dark ground.

Zwei Köpfe im Schilf byHokusai 1847

Katsushika Hokusai, 1847

Japanese print of the deity Susanoo seated above a crowd of demons and disease spirits on a gold background.

Susanoo Subduing Spirits of Disease (須佐之男命厄神退治之図)

Katsushika Hokusai, 1860

Hokusai painting of the Seven Lucky Gods of Japan with a laughing sack bearer, a bearded sage, and a spear-wielding warrior.

Seven-Lucky-Gods-of-Japan-Hokusai-七福神

Katsushika Hokusai

Japanese woodblock print of a lake with a boat, a castle, pine trees, figures on the shore, and a mountain at sunset.

'Lake Suwa in Shinano Province'

Katsushika Hokusai

Two-panel Japanese woodblock print of two women in an interior, one partly undressed, with calligraphy in the margins.

Shunga masturbation voyeurism

Katsushika Hokusai, 1824