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What is the difference between Hokusai and Hiroshige?
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The difference between Hokusai and Hiroshige is that the names refer to two different Japanese artists. Both artists lived during the Edo period but took their own approaches to art. Katsushika Hokusai is best known for his woodblock print The Great Wave off Kanagawa and sought to push art in a new direction with bold, dynamic compositions. Illustrator and printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige focused on the use of traditional imagery in his depictions of landscapes, like in his series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō. Find a variety of Utagawa Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai art on 1stDibs.
1stDibs ExpertAugust 20, 2024
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Authentic Woodblock Print Fujimigahara in Owari Province of 36 Views of Mt. Fuji
By Katsushika Hokusai
Located in London, GB
This Woodblock Print is the celebrated "Fujimigahara in Owari Province" (尾州不二見原 Bishū Fujimigahara), by the master Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai. It is a work from his f...
Category
1950s Edo Landscape Paintings
Materials
Ink, Washi Paper
Katsushika Hokusai -- Shūnen (Memorial Anniversary)
By Katsushika Hokusai
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Katsushika Hokusai
Shūnen (Memorial Anniversary) from the series Hyaku monogatari (100 Ghost Stories)
Circa 1831-1832
A chūban tate-e woodblock print
Signed Saki no Hokusai hitsu, ...
Category
1830s More Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Erotic Scene with Travelers...-Woodcut by Katsushika Hokusai-Late 19th Century
By Katsushika Hokusai
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene with Travelers and Courtesans (from an erotic album)
Edo period (late 18th–early 19th century)
Woodblock print (sumizuri-e).
This rare and finely executed erotic woodblock print...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki (Strange Tales of the Moonbow) by Katsushika Hokusai-1807
By Katsushika Hokusai
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut in black (sumizuri-e) realized by Hokusai between 1807 and 1811. Belongs to the series "Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki" (Strange Tales of the Moonbow).
A lifetime impression, in ver...
Category
Early 1800s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Fugaku Hyakkei - View of Mount Fuji from Edo by Katsushika Hokusai - 1834
By Katsushika Hokusai
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Hokusai in 1834.
From the Series "One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji".
Good condition and little signs of aging.
Category
1830s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Landscape from Fugaku Hyakkei- Woodcut Print by Katsushika Hokusai-1878
By Katsushika Hokusai
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape from "Fugaku hyakkei" is an original modern artwork realized by Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849).
Original Woodcut print from the series "Fugaku Hyakkei" (100 views of Mount Fuji). From the second posthumous edition 1878.
Passepartout is included.
Publisher Eiraku Toshiro.
Sheet dimensions: 24 x 26 cm.
Good conditions. Signs of age and wear.
Hokusai created the monumental Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji both as a response to a domestic travel boom in Japan and as part of a personal obsession with Mount Fuji.
Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849) known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Hokusai is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji which includes the internationally iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
