Hokusai's Landscapes: The Complete Series

The best known of all Japanese artists, Katsushika Hokusai was active as a painter, book illustrator and print designer throughout his 90-year lifespan. Yet his most famous works, the colour woodblock landscape prints issued in series, were produced within a relatively short time, in an amazing burst of creative energy that lasted from about 1830 to 1836.

Hokusai's landscapes revolutionised Japanese printmaking and became icons of world art within a few decades of the artist's death. Hokusai's Landscapes focuses exclusively on this pivotal body of the artist's work, the first book to do so. Hokusai's Landscapes examines the magnetic appeal of Hokusai's designs and the circumstances of their creation.