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Katsushika-Hokusai 1796-1800
Katsushika-Hokusai 1796-1800 An Oiran and her Two Shinzo Admiring the Cherry Trees
in Bloom in Nakanocho
Katsushika-Hokusai 1797-1797
Katsushika-Hokusai 1797-1797 The thousand year turtle
Katsushika-Hokusai 1797-1798
Katsushika-Hokusai 1797-1798 Taro Moon
Katsushika-Hokusai 1810-1810
Katsushika-Hokusai 1810-1810 Five Women One Smoking a Pipe and Two Others Measuring
a Piece of Fabric

UPCOMING EXHIBITION ABOUT HOKUSAI

Hokusai X Manga : Culture Pop Japonaise depuis 1680
Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense
10 June 2016 - 11 September 2016

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        A foremost example of this tendency to look to the East in the field of writing was Edmond de Goncourt, who was the first European to produce comprehensively researched monographs on Japanese artists. He wrote on Kitagawa Utamaro and Katsushika Hokusai, but died before he could accomplish a further twelve planned essays. His deep interest in Japanese culture was part of a general fascination amongst Western writers and artists with the Far East in general and Japan in particular. But for the majority of them (Goncourt included) this fascination was felt at a distance, since very few of them actually travelled to the places they so admired. This is why the writings of Pierre Loti, a French naval officer and novelist who travelled across the globe, proved so alluring for the public. His 1887 novel, Madame Chrysanthème, was a major success, and it would partly inspire Giacomo Puccini’s celebrated opera, Madama Butterfly (1904).


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