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Hokusai Boy and Mt.Fuji Vintage Japanese iPhone 5 Covers

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Boy and Mt. Fuji 葛飾北斎 「富士と笛吹童図」 painting on silk, 1839 Boy sitting on a tree branch playing a flute in the foreground, Mt. Fuji in the distance. Freer Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington D.C. Katsushika Hokusai (October or November 1760–May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. In his time, he was Japan's leading expert on Chinese painting. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best-known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, c. 1831, which includes the iconic and internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s. Boy sitting on a tree branch playing a flute in the foreground, Mt. Fuji in the distance. Freer Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington D.C. Vintage retro cute cool colorful beautiful Japanese Asian artistic elegant decor spiritual religious Shinto nature landscape fine art painting.
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The Great Wave Case-Mate iPhone 4 Case

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The Great Wave Case-Mate iPhone 4 Case. The Great Wave off Kanagawa, also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a woodblock print by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai. Example of ukiyo-e art, it was published sometime between 1830 and 1833 as the first in Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, and is his most famous work.
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The big wave off Kanagawa Katsushika Hokusai Coaster

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The big wave off Kanagawa Cool oriental japanese Hokusai Fuji View landscape kunichika yoshitoshi art japan china masterprint tidal wave great woodblock print woodprint culture east nice perfect watercolour art old vintage old master oriental japanese chinese landscape fuji mountain view
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The Great Wave Poster

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The Great Wave off Kanagawa Poster The Great Wave off Kanagawa, also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a woodblock print by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai. Example of ukiyo-e art, it was published sometime between 1830 and 1833 as the first in Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, and is his most famous work.
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Snow Landscape Greeting Card

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A beautiful Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige, an artist renowned for his landscape prints. This is panel 2 in the triptych entitled Modern Genji: Viewing in Snow.

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Plum Blossoms and the Moon, Hokusai Cards

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Plum Blossoms and the Moon. Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, 1760 – 1849) was a Japanese artist, Ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. In his time, he was Japan's leading expert on Chinese painting. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best-known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei, c. 1831) which includes the internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s
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雪中虎図, 北斎 Tiger in the Snow, Hokusai Fridge Magnet

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雪中虎図, 北斎 Tiger in the Snow, Hokusai Fridge Magnet
Katsushika Hokusai (October or November 1760 – May 10, 1849)was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. In his time, he was Japan's leading expert on Chinese painting. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best-known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji ( Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei c. 1831) which includes the internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s.

His influences also stretched to his contemporaries in nineteenth century Europe whose new style Art Nouveau, or Jugendstil in Germany, was influenced by him and by Japanese art in general. This was also part of the larger Impressionist movement, with similar themes to Hokusai appearing in Claude Monet andPierre-Auguste Renoir. Hermann Obrist's whiplash motif, or Peitschenhieb, which became seen to exemplify the new movement, is visibly influenced by Hokusai's work.
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