Hokusai – The Road to Mt. Fuji

This year is the 170th anniversary since the death of Katsushika Hokusai (1760~1849) on April 18th, 1849. In commemoration, Ota Memorial Museum of Art will host “Hokusai – The Road to Mt. Fuji” to exhibit how Hokusai continued painting Mt. Fuji as his life-long project.

Katsushika Hokusai “View of Sensō-ji Temple”(2nd term)

An early work by Hokusai in his late 20’s.

Katsushika Hokusai “Hodogaya”(2nd term)

A series of works of the Tokaido road by Hokusai in his late 40’s.

His long artistic career before the birth of “Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji”

Hokusai continued printing landscape pictures over the 70 years of his career as an artist. We will present Hokusai’s long artistic journey which lead to the production of his representative works, “Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji” at the age of over 70. We will then explore Hokusai’s further ambitions after “Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji”, which he pursued until his death at the age of 90.

Katsushika Hokusai “Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road : No. 14, Hara”(1st term)

A series of works of the Tokaido road by Hokusai when he was around 50. The Korean delegation looking at Mt. Fuji.

Katsushika Hokusai “Hokusai Manga” Volume 7(1st term)

Mt. Fuji by Hokusai when he was 58.

100 unique Mt. Fuji by Hokusai

This exhibition presents the development of Hokusai’s landscape pictures by chronologically introducing his works. Among the over 200 works exhibited are paintings of 100 different interpretations of Mt. Fuji through the eyes of the mastery of Hokusai.

Katsushika Hokusai “One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji” Volume 2 : Mt. Fuji in the Sudden Shower(2nd term)

A work by Hokusai when he was 76.

Katsushika “HokusaiOne Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse : Yamabe no Akahito”(1st term)

A work by Hokusai when he was 76.