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Making waves: Hokusai and the creation of modern Japan

Posted on 2nd July 2018 by Camilla

Last summer the British Museum devoted a major retrospective to the ­printmaker and painter Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). He is perhaps Japan’s most influential and internationally renowned artist, viewed by some as the father of modernism.1 These days most of us… Continue Reading →

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