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Hokusai: A Graphic Biography
A stunning visual biography of one of Japan's most famous historical artists, this book beautifully illustrates the story of Katsushika Hokusai.
Enter the world of Katsushika Hokusai – the enigmatic creator of Japanese art's all-time most iconic image. This vivid graphic biography tells the story of Hokusai's intriguing life and pioneering works, details the fascinating historical context of Edo-era Japan, and explains how Hokusai forged an image of his country that still resonates across the world today.
Telling the story of both his eccentric (and incredibly productive) life – while simultaneously painting a fascination picture of his wider cultural legacy, this book is ideal for both those new to Hokusai's work – and his biggest fans. Those who enjoyed A Graphic Novel by Paolo Parisi or Pollock A Graphic Novel by Onofrio Catacchio should look at this too.
Enter the world of Katsushika Hokusai – the enigmatic creator of Japanese art's all-time most iconic image. This vivid graphic biography tells the story of Hokusai's intriguing life and pioneering works, details the fascinating historical context of Edo-era Japan, and explains how Hokusai forged an image of his country that still resonates across the world today.
Telling the story of both his eccentric (and incredibly productive) life – while simultaneously painting a fascination picture of his wider cultural legacy, this book is ideal for both those new to Hokusai's work – and his biggest fans. Those who enjoyed A Graphic Novel by Paolo Parisi or Pollock A Graphic Novel by Onofrio Catacchio should look at this too.
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Published April 7, 2021
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March 19, 2022
Hokusai referred to himself as “an old man mad about painting.” One of his most famous works and a favorite of mine is the “Great Wave off Kanagawa”, which was made from a wood block print in 1830 and can be found in museums worldwide. In 1760, Hokusai was born in Edo (now Tokyo), which was the home of the Shogun who governed Japan. Hokusai became a widow with three children. After working several years for others, he became his own master with the freedom to pursue other works and ever-changing styles. A prolific artist he created “satirical pamphlets”, “illustrated postcards”, wood block and silkscreen paintings and prints, manga, erotic art, and manuals of people, landscapes, mythologies, nature, animals, and more. He painted a Buddha portrait approximately 200 square meters (2,153 square feet) to two flying birds on a grain of rice. Hokusai constantly adapted in pursuit of perfection believing he never achieved it when he died at age 89. His work influenced many French impressionist painters, including Renoir, Monet, Degas, and Van Gogh once Japan opened its borders a few years after his death.
The illustrations were beautiful except for too much gray around the eyes. However, I found the transitions choppy (maybe because of the translation from the Italian), too much historical information detracted from the story (unnecessary to include the Japanese Calendar system, art schools, etc.), and the conversations and quotes seem unrealistic (yet I understand that the authors relied on his own words and those who knew him). I was better able to understand this book, because I had recently read another book about his life albeit a child’s picture book.
The illustrations were beautiful except for too much gray around the eyes. However, I found the transitions choppy (maybe because of the translation from the Italian), too much historical information detracted from the story (unnecessary to include the Japanese Calendar system, art schools, etc.), and the conversations and quotes seem unrealistic (yet I understand that the authors relied on his own words and those who knew him). I was better able to understand this book, because I had recently read another book about his life albeit a child’s picture book.
May 22, 2021
I finished reading the text but then upon reading the afterword, a whole new perspective opened up and I went back and reread the text.
(In answer to the implicit question asked, I think it was the chicken story.)
(In answer to the implicit question asked, I think it was the chicken story.)
May 31, 2023
Originally written for "graphic_librarians" bookstagram.
I read this book without knowing who Hokusai was, and it was totally inspiring to learn about the life and art of a person who is bigger than life! If you don’t know who Hokusai is, let’s start by saying that he is one of the biggest symbols of Japanese art.
Hokusai was born in 1760 in Eno (today called Tokyo) under the name Tokitaro, and he was gifted in art since his childhood. He showed interest in woodblock printing and very quickly started learning the trade, embarking on a magnificent life trip.
He lived during the Edo period, when art was flourishing and various art schools were created. Ukyo-e style of woodblock printing and painting was especially popular, drawing inspiration from daily life, entertainment and pleasure. This style allowed mass production of affordable art to the ordinary people.
Tokitaro was a pupil of Shusho, founder of Katsukawa school, and used the name Shinto. After his masters death, he left the school (and the name) since he was interested in the new ideas. A failed meeting with a master of another school brings him a realization that he had no further need of masters. This realization marked the rest of his life: “I’m no longer bound to anyone but myself now… I’m free to draw what I want, how I want… Anything I want!” Oh, how much we can learn from him.
Free from the social and artistic boundaries, he started using the name Hokusai and made his name by designing a huge number of satirical pamphlets (Kyoha Ehon) and illustrated postcards (Surimono), among other things.
Hokusai created extraordinary artworks like a massive 200 square meter portrait of Bodhidharma, or microscopic projects, when he painted a couple of birds in flight on a grain of rice. Although his work is considered masterpieces, he was always searching for artistic perfection, which, in his opinion, he never achieved.
This book is great both for art aficionados (like David), or art noobs (like me). Hokusai is an inspiration, for art, and for life. You should read this book.
I read this book without knowing who Hokusai was, and it was totally inspiring to learn about the life and art of a person who is bigger than life! If you don’t know who Hokusai is, let’s start by saying that he is one of the biggest symbols of Japanese art.
Hokusai was born in 1760 in Eno (today called Tokyo) under the name Tokitaro, and he was gifted in art since his childhood. He showed interest in woodblock printing and very quickly started learning the trade, embarking on a magnificent life trip.
He lived during the Edo period, when art was flourishing and various art schools were created. Ukyo-e style of woodblock printing and painting was especially popular, drawing inspiration from daily life, entertainment and pleasure. This style allowed mass production of affordable art to the ordinary people.
Tokitaro was a pupil of Shusho, founder of Katsukawa school, and used the name Shinto. After his masters death, he left the school (and the name) since he was interested in the new ideas. A failed meeting with a master of another school brings him a realization that he had no further need of masters. This realization marked the rest of his life: “I’m no longer bound to anyone but myself now… I’m free to draw what I want, how I want… Anything I want!” Oh, how much we can learn from him.
Free from the social and artistic boundaries, he started using the name Hokusai and made his name by designing a huge number of satirical pamphlets (Kyoha Ehon) and illustrated postcards (Surimono), among other things.
Hokusai created extraordinary artworks like a massive 200 square meter portrait of Bodhidharma, or microscopic projects, when he painted a couple of birds in flight on a grain of rice. Although his work is considered masterpieces, he was always searching for artistic perfection, which, in his opinion, he never achieved.
This book is great both for art aficionados (like David), or art noobs (like me). Hokusai is an inspiration, for art, and for life. You should read this book.
May 12, 2022
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More years ago than I care to reflect upon, I was recommended a graphic novel called Logicomix which examined the developments and debates in mathematics and logic that dominated the early twentieth century through the lens of the life of famous philosopher Bertrand Russell. Logicomix narrative was multi-layered, intermixing the story of the writing of the book itself with the life of Russell and his contemporaries, and even tying in ancient Greek tragedy in a rather unexpected way. It really convinced me that graphic novels could not only be entertaining but also highly informative and great pieces of scholarship in their own right. Logicomix does a better job explaining Gödel’s contribution to logic than many books I’ve read.
My past experience with Logicomix meant that I was intrigued when I was given a copy of Hokusai: A Graphic Biography by Giuseppe Latanza and Francesco Matteuzzi for my birthday. I’m a big fan of Hokusai’s work – seeing some of his original prints on my trip to Japan in 2019 was a highlight even if we were unable to make time to visit the Hokusai Museum in Tokyo. I also had an idea that his life was a bit…eccentric to put it mildly, so this promised to be an interesting read. It also brought to mind the anime film Miss Hokusai which adapted vignettes from a manga about the life and artistic career of Hokusai’s most famous daughter, Katsushika Ōi. Unlike Miss Hokusai, Hokusai: A Graphic Biography is a western production intended for a European and North American audience rather than a Japanese one. This is made very clear by the choice to intersperse the story of Hokusai and his life with pages of text explaining Edo era Japan for the uninitiated.
Like the film adaptation of Miss Hokusai, Hokusai: A Graphic Biography is more a series of vignettes and short anecdotes about Hokusai’s life rather than a straightforward biography. It is broadly chronological and covers the main phases in Hokusai’s artistic career but focuses more on moments of change or significant achievements rather than looking at his day-to-day existence. It also largely ignores his personal life; we get a brief mention of the death of his first wife, but his subsequent marriages are entirely unmentioned. One of his (in the story nameless) daughters plays a role in a scene later in his life, but the artistic career of his daughter Ōi, including her time apprenticing with him, along with the lives of any of his numerous other children are absent from the narrative. Arguably these aspects are not central to the book’s focus of exploring the artistic career of Hokusai. This would hardly be the first work to focus primarily on Hokusai’s art over his personal life, but I would have preferred to learn more about Hokusai the person as well as the artist.
Hokusai: A Graphic Biography went up several steps in my opinion based on the quality of its Afterword, which is not something I can usually say. In those two pages the authors explain how difficult it was to piece together the life of Hokusai. While the artist was an ardent self-promoter and left significant autobiographical information behind, he was also a deeply unreliable narrator of his own life and many of his stories are fantastical and lack corroboration from other sources. This makes it very difficult to piece together a “true” history of Hokusai – and this is possibly why so many accounts prefer to just focus on the art and his career and leave aside the thornier issues of interpreting his life outside of his work. I do wish this was somewhere in the main text instead of relegated to an Afterword. It was far more interesting than the straightforward account of Japanese history that separated the chapters about Hokusai.
The pages describing Edo era Japan are largely fine – nothing revelatory or historiographically ground-breaking, but then you wouldn’t really expect that in a graphic novel for general readers. I saw a few popular myths/exaggerations about Edo era Japan scattered throughout the text but nothing particularly egregious. For the most part these are fine, they didn’t wow me but for people who aren’t already familiar with the subject they will be a useful introduction.
The place where Hokusai: A Graphic Biography really shines is in the art. Giuseppe Latanza’s artwork is phenomenal. It draws inspiration from Hokusai’s work but is also distinctly its own thing. As you would want from a graphic novel biography, the visual element is vital to the story told in the book. Perhaps this is why I didn’t like the historical explainers as much – they were often largely devoid of art. I was a little disappointed to see that some of the art is reused in a few places, but I can also appreciate that drawing something like this must have been very time consuming and a little light re-use cannot be entirely condemned. I would have just preferred more art, as should be clear by this stage. The only other fault I could find is that I would have liked it if they tried to include more dramatic compositions – the framing of the characters can be a bit too straightforward. I really like a panel late in the book that intersperses modern era Tokyo with classic Edo, and I wish the art took a little more effort to push the limits of what is possible in the medium. That said, that is personal preference and I’m sure a weirder artistic take would put some people off as well!
Overall, I liked Hokusai: A Graphic Biography even if it didn’t wow me the same way Logicomix did. I will still continue to periodically check out how graphic novels are helping us to understand history, because I think it is a method that has great potential and is often underutilised. Arguably there is no better way to tell the story of the life and career of a famous artist than through a visual medium, and in that regard Hokusai: A Graphic Biography is a great little read.
More years ago than I care to reflect upon, I was recommended a graphic novel called Logicomix which examined the developments and debates in mathematics and logic that dominated the early twentieth century through the lens of the life of famous philosopher Bertrand Russell. Logicomix narrative was multi-layered, intermixing the story of the writing of the book itself with the life of Russell and his contemporaries, and even tying in ancient Greek tragedy in a rather unexpected way. It really convinced me that graphic novels could not only be entertaining but also highly informative and great pieces of scholarship in their own right. Logicomix does a better job explaining Gödel’s contribution to logic than many books I’ve read.
My past experience with Logicomix meant that I was intrigued when I was given a copy of Hokusai: A Graphic Biography by Giuseppe Latanza and Francesco Matteuzzi for my birthday. I’m a big fan of Hokusai’s work – seeing some of his original prints on my trip to Japan in 2019 was a highlight even if we were unable to make time to visit the Hokusai Museum in Tokyo. I also had an idea that his life was a bit…eccentric to put it mildly, so this promised to be an interesting read. It also brought to mind the anime film Miss Hokusai which adapted vignettes from a manga about the life and artistic career of Hokusai’s most famous daughter, Katsushika Ōi. Unlike Miss Hokusai, Hokusai: A Graphic Biography is a western production intended for a European and North American audience rather than a Japanese one. This is made very clear by the choice to intersperse the story of Hokusai and his life with pages of text explaining Edo era Japan for the uninitiated.
Like the film adaptation of Miss Hokusai, Hokusai: A Graphic Biography is more a series of vignettes and short anecdotes about Hokusai’s life rather than a straightforward biography. It is broadly chronological and covers the main phases in Hokusai’s artistic career but focuses more on moments of change or significant achievements rather than looking at his day-to-day existence. It also largely ignores his personal life; we get a brief mention of the death of his first wife, but his subsequent marriages are entirely unmentioned. One of his (in the story nameless) daughters plays a role in a scene later in his life, but the artistic career of his daughter Ōi, including her time apprenticing with him, along with the lives of any of his numerous other children are absent from the narrative. Arguably these aspects are not central to the book’s focus of exploring the artistic career of Hokusai. This would hardly be the first work to focus primarily on Hokusai’s art over his personal life, but I would have preferred to learn more about Hokusai the person as well as the artist.
Hokusai: A Graphic Biography went up several steps in my opinion based on the quality of its Afterword, which is not something I can usually say. In those two pages the authors explain how difficult it was to piece together the life of Hokusai. While the artist was an ardent self-promoter and left significant autobiographical information behind, he was also a deeply unreliable narrator of his own life and many of his stories are fantastical and lack corroboration from other sources. This makes it very difficult to piece together a “true” history of Hokusai – and this is possibly why so many accounts prefer to just focus on the art and his career and leave aside the thornier issues of interpreting his life outside of his work. I do wish this was somewhere in the main text instead of relegated to an Afterword. It was far more interesting than the straightforward account of Japanese history that separated the chapters about Hokusai.
The pages describing Edo era Japan are largely fine – nothing revelatory or historiographically ground-breaking, but then you wouldn’t really expect that in a graphic novel for general readers. I saw a few popular myths/exaggerations about Edo era Japan scattered throughout the text but nothing particularly egregious. For the most part these are fine, they didn’t wow me but for people who aren’t already familiar with the subject they will be a useful introduction.
The place where Hokusai: A Graphic Biography really shines is in the art. Giuseppe Latanza’s artwork is phenomenal. It draws inspiration from Hokusai’s work but is also distinctly its own thing. As you would want from a graphic novel biography, the visual element is vital to the story told in the book. Perhaps this is why I didn’t like the historical explainers as much – they were often largely devoid of art. I was a little disappointed to see that some of the art is reused in a few places, but I can also appreciate that drawing something like this must have been very time consuming and a little light re-use cannot be entirely condemned. I would have just preferred more art, as should be clear by this stage. The only other fault I could find is that I would have liked it if they tried to include more dramatic compositions – the framing of the characters can be a bit too straightforward. I really like a panel late in the book that intersperses modern era Tokyo with classic Edo, and I wish the art took a little more effort to push the limits of what is possible in the medium. That said, that is personal preference and I’m sure a weirder artistic take would put some people off as well!
Overall, I liked Hokusai: A Graphic Biography even if it didn’t wow me the same way Logicomix did. I will still continue to periodically check out how graphic novels are helping us to understand history, because I think it is a method that has great potential and is often underutilised. Arguably there is no better way to tell the story of the life and career of a famous artist than through a visual medium, and in that regard Hokusai: A Graphic Biography is a great little read.
February 13, 2024
A fascinating history of the great Japanese artist, Hokusai, told in graphic novel format and interspersed with little bits of trivia about Japan and its history. At the end are some short but interesting explanations of how the graphic novel came to be and the challenges of sorting through all the stories about Hokusai, some of which may have been true and some false, though we’ve no way of knowing which were which.
July 5, 2024
Une intéressante biographie sur ce grand maître qui a tant influencé la peinture européenne, dont les magnifiques illustrations nous transportent sans difficulté au pays du Soleil Levant
July 8, 2024
Une biographie sympathique sur le Grand Maître Hokusaï avec de belles illustrations.
April 9, 2021
You can tell it's a translation (some of the wording is a little clunky) but the art is gorgeous and I learned gobs!
June 23, 2024
Frustrating to read. The text seemed disorganized, and in a book entirely made of illustrations, the illustrations did little to support the text: styles were described instead of shown. I would have liked to see examples any time a style of art was mentioned. The art examples shown on the cover are almost the only ones shown in the book. They're not copyrighted - show us what he was doing.
It was as though one person wrote the texts summarizing Japanese art, a second wrote the story, a third person illustrated the story in their own style, and a fourth person assembled the whole into a repetitve collection that wasn't quite synchronized.
It was as though one person wrote the texts summarizing Japanese art, a second wrote the story, a third person illustrated the story in their own style, and a fourth person assembled the whole into a repetitve collection that wasn't quite synchronized.
August 5, 2021
This is a beautifully illustrated biography of the Japanese artist Hokusai.
Unfortunately, I didn't learn much more than I did reading the heavily illustrated Taschen book a couple of months ago. There's just not that much solid information out there about him.
Still, I'm glad to add this to my library.
Unfortunately, I didn't learn much more than I did reading the heavily illustrated Taschen book a couple of months ago. There's just not that much solid information out there about him.
Still, I'm glad to add this to my library.
July 18, 2022
Ich hab das direkt durchgelesen und das war sehr informativ und die zeichnungen waren auch voll gut 👍👍
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December 31, 2024Une bd qui présente la vie de Hokusai, un artiste japonais de la fin du 18/19e siècle dont l’histoire commence a Edo (Tokyo actuel), la plus grand ville du Japon et du monde entier à cette époque. Traditionaliste dans sa peinture au début il tend peu à peu vers d’autres références picturales et sort du carcan de la peinture japonaise traditionnelle. Il s’essaie à une grande variété de genres artistiques, mais il est surtout connu pour ses ukiyo-e et ses cartes de vœux illustrées. En effet, la fameuse Grande Vague de Kanawaga, estampe bois réalisée vers 1830, fait justement partie de la série d’estampe de l’ukiyo-e*, ses 36 vues du Mont Fuji.
La bd nous donne les informations nécessaires pour comprendre le parcours de l’artiste et introduit des apartés (peut-être trop détaillés parfois) ou sont développés les notions, concepts ou terminologies clés propres au contexte japonais de la période d’Edo. L’histoire est intéressante sans pour autant captivante, et les dessins sont bien réalisés, mais sans transcendance selon mon appréciation. Cet ouvrage me laisse légèrement sur ma faim sans pour autant faillir à ses volontés biographique et narrative d’un artiste et ses oeuvres.
*”images du monde flottant”, genre de dessin d’estampe typique de l’époque d’Edo. Les principaux sujets sont issus de la vie quotidienne et surtout des activités liées au plaisir et divertissement. Impression grâce à tablette de bois -> production en série.
La bd nous donne les informations nécessaires pour comprendre le parcours de l’artiste et introduit des apartés (peut-être trop détaillés parfois) ou sont développés les notions, concepts ou terminologies clés propres au contexte japonais de la période d’Edo. L’histoire est intéressante sans pour autant captivante, et les dessins sont bien réalisés, mais sans transcendance selon mon appréciation. Cet ouvrage me laisse légèrement sur ma faim sans pour autant faillir à ses volontés biographique et narrative d’un artiste et ses oeuvres.
*”images du monde flottant”, genre de dessin d’estampe typique de l’époque d’Edo. Les principaux sujets sont issus de la vie quotidienne et surtout des activités liées au plaisir et divertissement. Impression grâce à tablette de bois -> production en série.
November 9, 2022
An evolution of Japanese art and living
This was a nice book detailing some of the key point in the life of the artist known by many names but was best known as Katsushika Hokusai (or simply Hokusai like many one named artists these days.) Although I enjoyed the art, occasional humor, and various depictions of information through out the book I only have one minor complaint and that is the lack of his family and in particular his daughter Katsushika Ōi who was herself a talented artist that occasionally worked with her father. Instead she gets a few moments (at least I think its her since she is not mentioned by name) in the book as his care taker and traveling companion when he is older. Certainly there are rumors that some of Hokusai's works were done by his daughter which did not need to be included but considering he probably taught her everything she knew about art to make sure the style improved even after his death I can imagine she would have made a better part of the story than an aged Hokusai telling uninterested children about his life (and it would lets the uniformed reader know why some woman is calling him dad toward the end of the book.)
This was a nice book detailing some of the key point in the life of the artist known by many names but was best known as Katsushika Hokusai (or simply Hokusai like many one named artists these days.) Although I enjoyed the art, occasional humor, and various depictions of information through out the book I only have one minor complaint and that is the lack of his family and in particular his daughter Katsushika Ōi who was herself a talented artist that occasionally worked with her father. Instead she gets a few moments (at least I think its her since she is not mentioned by name) in the book as his care taker and traveling companion when he is older. Certainly there are rumors that some of Hokusai's works were done by his daughter which did not need to be included but considering he probably taught her everything she knew about art to make sure the style improved even after his death I can imagine she would have made a better part of the story than an aged Hokusai telling uninterested children about his life (and it would lets the uniformed reader know why some woman is calling him dad toward the end of the book.)
January 21, 2023
Title: Hokusai A Graphic Biography
Author: Giuseppe Latanza
Artist: Francesco Matteuzzi
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Pages: 126
Year of Publication / Release: 2021
The story was a bit difficult to follow, as the narrative jumped forward at random increments with very little transitions. And what may or may not be considered as a "transition" were one-page information dumps that, although they were interesting, could have been better explained within the narrative. I also felt like I didn't get a sense of Hokusai's personality.
Author: Giuseppe Latanza
Artist: Francesco Matteuzzi
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Pages: 126
Year of Publication / Release: 2021
The story was a bit difficult to follow, as the narrative jumped forward at random increments with very little transitions. And what may or may not be considered as a "transition" were one-page information dumps that, although they were interesting, could have been better explained within the narrative. I also felt like I didn't get a sense of Hokusai's personality.
January 23, 2022
The Western interpretation of an Eastern story is pretty graceless, possibly because of the translation. The illustrations are.... pretty Western. They made an attempt at telling the story of an extraordinary artist, as well as to educate Western culture about some key aspects of Japanese art history, but during the delivery the whole thing was made rather flat.
May 31, 2022
It was a nice book, but I think it only serves to whet the appetite if you want to learn more about Hokusai and ukiyo-e. I appreciated the connections drawn to the Impressionists and other aspects of Japan's place in the world and how it was rapidly changing around that time. It would be okay for older kids, but Hokusai did make some spicy prints and there are a few examples of them inside.
March 29, 2025
I liked the historical context this book gives for Hokusai's life and work. As a biography, though, it is pretty fragmented and disjointed. I also couldn't help but wish they had integrated some original Hokusai works into the book instead of having recreations of them. All in all, a good jumping off point if you are curious about this artist.
July 19, 2025
Well depicted the life of Hokusai which provides context of the Edo period in which he grew up in - the variety of paining schools (and respective styles) that were present, and most critically the omnipresence of Ukiyo-e prints all around. Makes one curious to view Hokusai’s One Hundred View of Mount Fuji. Will read this book again!
May 12, 2022
Real rating: 5.7/10
Nice book, but it has very little content and is meant more for people who do not know Hokusai or Japanese art. Multiple pages that have no more than a dozen to 2 dozen words. Very sparse. I would not recommend it to anyone other than maybe young teens.
Nice book, but it has very little content and is meant more for people who do not know Hokusai or Japanese art. Multiple pages that have no more than a dozen to 2 dozen words. Very sparse. I would not recommend it to anyone other than maybe young teens.
September 6, 2022
Enjoyable and informative but I felt it was missing something and could have given so much more. Nice for children maybe (though it does discus shunga) but it's very simplified so as an adult I'm just left wanting to read and see more.
January 1, 2024
I feel like I learned a lot, the art itself was beautiful, and I was interested in seeing what a graphic biography would look like. That being said, the biography felt uneven, and the transitions, especially in the later parts of the book, were pretty jarring.
March 14, 2024
Scoperta per caso della biblioteca locale.
Un uomo che conoscevo solo per i suoi lavori sul monte Fuji.
Bello scoprire cosa viene prima e interessanti gli intermezzi con le spiegazioni di termini o tradizioni.
Un uomo che conoscevo solo per i suoi lavori sul monte Fuji.
Bello scoprire cosa viene prima e interessanti gli intermezzi con le spiegazioni di termini o tradizioni.
July 2, 2024
"Wir wissen nicht, wie viele der Anekdoten, die man sich über Hokusai erzählt, wirklich wahr sind oder nicht. Aber auch, wenn due vollständig erfunden wären, auch wenn sie reine Erzählkonstruktionen wären, wäre das ein wirklich guter Grund, um damit aufzuhören, sie zu erzählen?"
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December 1, 2024
Dieses Buch gibt einen guten Überblick über die Kunstgeschichte Japans zur Zeit von Hokusai. Außerdem erfährt man ein paar biografische Daten zu Hokusai und dem Nachleben seiner Kunst. Es ist auf jeden Fall ein interessanter Sachcomic.
October 29, 2020
dt. Hokusai: Die Seele Japans entdecken
January 30, 2022
A very basic overview of Hokusai and Japanese culture as it related to that time. Nothing particularly special, but interesting enough overall.
March 24, 2022
A great novel for a great painter.
September 27, 2022
Gives a lot more info about Japan as expected, intresting quick read, nice art, like everyone I love The Great Wave :)
November 12, 2022
J´ai beaucoup aimé découvrir la vie et l´oeuvre d´Hokusai, mais j´ai trouvé la bd parfois sur un ton trop documentaire...
November 13, 2022
Loved finding out about his daughter, also an artist in her own right.
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