![]() Mount Fuji was the most significant model for Hokusai in his quest for immortality. ![]() His late subjects and styles were based on a mastery of eclectic Japanese, Chinese and European techniques and an encyclopaedic knowledge of nature, myth, and history. Hokusai continually explored the mutability and minutiae of natural phenomena in his art. The book gives due attention to the contribution of Hokusai’s daughter Eijo (Oi), an accomplished artist in her own right. Hokusai’s personal beliefs are studied here through major brush paintings, drawings, woodblock prints and illustrated books. This book takes a fresh approach based on innovative scholarship: thematic groupings of works are related to the major spiritual and artistic quests of Hokusai’s life. ![]() Publications have hitherto presented his long career as a chronological sequence. ![]() Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life, right up to his death at the age of ninety. ![]()
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