Impact Abroad

This work traveled to Europe in the late 1870s and influenced European artists, including the painter Van Gogh, who praised it.

The influence of Japanese art on Western culture came to be known as Japonism.

Japanese woodblock prints have been a source of inspiration for artists of many genres, especially the Impressionists.

The picture is expected to be used on the reverse side of Japan's new 1,000 yen bills, which are scheduled to be issued in fiscal year 2024.

About the author,　Katsushika Hokusai

Hokusai was born in Edo (now Tokyo) and was a student of the ukiyo-e artist Katsukawa Shunsho. He learned all kinds of painting techniques from the Kano school, Chinese and Western painting, and produced many pictures of famous places (ukiyoe landscapes) and actors' pictures.

"Fine Wind, Clear Morning" is a work by Hokusai when he was 72 years old.

He produced more than 30,000 works in his lifetime. He was ambitious from a young age and was outstanding in his prints as well as in Ukiyoe.

In his later years, he also studied and experimented with copperplate printing and glass painting. He was also interested in oil painting, but he failed to achieve this in his long 90 years of life.

Hokusai was also famous for his many moves, which are believed to be as many as 93 times. He once moved three times a day.

It is said that he moved three times in one day because he was so focused on painting that he moved every time his room became dirty or rotten.

When he finally moved into his old house for the 93rd time, his room was still as messy as when he moved out, so he took this opportunity to stop moving.

2020.11