Hokusai: Great Picture Book of Everything

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Hokusai: Great Picture Book of Everything. The accompanying hardback title to the British Museum exhibition Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything.

This landmark publication documents a major new discovery of over 100 drawings by the foremost Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai. Acquired by the British Museum in 2020, these previously unpublished drawings had been forgotten for over 70 years. All 103 exquisite drawings are reproduced at full size for the first time.

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is considered by many to be Japan?s greatest artist. During his seventy-year career, he produced a considerable oeuvre of some 3,000 colour prints, illustrations for over 200 books, hundreds o