浮世絵師の葛飾北斎。
19才から様々な画法を学んだことが北斎の画風に大きな影響を与えたと言われており、
代表作は「冨嶽三十六景」シリーズ。
晩年の作品では、単に景観や人々の生活を描写するのではなく、
ひとつの対象物にどのくらいの見方があり、どう変化をみせるのかに注目している点も興味深い。
西洋絵画にも大きな影響を与え、日本に於いては日本マンガの原点とも言われているそうです。
Hokusai is perhaps the Japanese artist best known.
Paintings of Hokusai is also the origin of japanese comic.
His influence has extended from the Impressionists to later modern art and even to commercial design.
the "Great Wave" and the "Red Fuji" from the Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji represent only a tiny action of Hokusai's output. The pages of the Sketches, with their teeming humanity and their boundless interest in the details of everyday life, give only a small idea of his true scope.
Hokusai's life was characterized by a prodigious energy and productivity that continued to the end of his ninth
decade; his output comprises a correspondingly broad variety of genres and styles.
■The Sumida Hokusai Museum (TOKYO)
Official website：hokusai-museum.jp
