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Art Review: Hokusai: Beyond The Great Wave – An Exhibition At The British Museum
June 5, 2017
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Exhibition dates: 25th May – 13th August 2017
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/hokusai.aspx
Katsushika Hokusai was born Tokitarō in 1760 in Honjo Warigesui, the present-day Kamezawa area of Sumida City. He was adopted by Ise Nakajima, an artisan, who made and supplied metal mirrors to the Shōgun’s court and, according to “Katsushika Hokusai Den” (Biography of Katsushika Hokusai) by Kyoshin Iijima, a mother who was granddaughter to Kobayashi Heihachirō, an expert swordsman and high ranking retainer of Read more…