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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Kingfisher with Irises, Hokusai, 1834 T-shirt
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The Maple Trees – Ando Hiroshige Iphone 4 Case
The Maple Trees – Maple trees at Mama, Tekona Shrine and Linked Bridge. Print shows a bird's-eye view through maple trees of the Tekona Shrine with thatch-roofed buildings a grove of trees, with mountains in the distance. Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), Japanese painter and printmaker, known especially for his landscape prints. The last great figure of the Ukiyo-e, or popular, school of printmaking, he transmuted everyday landscapes into intimate, lyrical scenes that made him even more successful than his contemporary, Hokusai.