Table of Contents

Gian Carlo Calza: 'The Universal Hokusai' - Roger S. Keyes: 'The Young Hokusai' - Matthi Forrer: 'Western Influences on Hokusai's Art' - John M. Rosenfield: '"The maker is Master": Hokusai the Individualist in his Two Handbooks on Painting' - Richard Lane: 'Sorrows of Love Overcome: the Erotic Art of Hokusai' - Asano Shugo: 'Art and the Literary Circles of Surimono: the Genroku kasen kai awase and Umazukushi series' - Tsuji Nobuo: 'In a World of Fantasy: the Late Works of Hokusai' - Tadashi Kobayashi: 'Hokusai's Letters' - I In the Sign of the Dragon: the Shunro Period - II Individualism and Autonomy: the Sori Period - III Maturity: the Hokusai Period - IV Handbooks, Handbooks, Handbooks: the Taito Period - V The Landscape Revolution: the Iitsu Period - VI Beyond the Impossible: the Manji Period - VII Beyond the Limits of the Western Sea: Hokusai and japonisme - List of Works - Glossary - Bibliography - Index

About the Author

Gian Carlo Calza is Professor of East Asian Art, Ca'Foscari University, Venice, and Director of the International Hokusai Research Centre in Milan. A distinguished authority on Hokusai and Japanese art, he has published many books, exhibition catalogues and articles on Holusai, and is currently preparing a catalogue raisonne of Hokusai's paintings. Roger S. Keyes is Visiting Professor in the History of Art at Brown University, an Associate in Research at the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University, and Director of the Center for the Study of Japanese Prints. Matthi Forrer is Curator of the Japanese Department at the National Museum of Ethnology, University of Leiden John. M. Rosenfield is Professor Emeritus of East Asian Art, Harvard University, and Curator of Asian Art at the Harvard University Art Museums Richard Lane is an Independent scholar, Kyoto Asano Shugo is Curator of the Municipal Museum of Art, Chiba Tsuji Nobuo is Rector of Tama University of Fine Arts, Tokyo, and Emeritus Professor of East Asian Art at the University of Tokyo Kobayashi Tadashi is Director of the Municipal Museum of Art, Chiba, and Professor of East Asian Art History at the University Gakushuin of Tokyo Author's Residence: Milan, Italy

Reviews

'this beautiful monograph, a seriously weighty tome, not only provides a comprehensive overview of Hokusai's work but also analyses his influence on Western artists. Immaculately reproduced artwork combined with research from both Western and Japanese scholars as well as intelligent commentary accompanying each of the amazing illustrations make this book worth every last penny.' Creative Review, August 2003 UK "gives us a true idea of the great range of Hokusai's work and its enormous variety ... the finest of the new publications on Hokusai" Donald Richie, The Japan Times, August 2003 'as the hundreds of plates in this book attest, Hokusai's work has a breadth and versatility that might surprise those who know the artist principally for those seemingly endless depictions of Tokyo's celebrated conical volcano.' World of Interiors, November 2003 UK 'comprehensive and splendidly illustrated - It is such a visually stimulating read that this has to be the art book I would most like to find under the Christmas tree.' Frank Whitford, The Sunday Times, November 2003 UK 'superb reproductions make this probably the best introduction to this artist you can find.' Wall Street Journal Europe, December 2003 'Great care has been taken throughout to choose for reproduction the best preserved original prints that reveal Hokusai's mastery of line and colour to full advantage. - A must for the library of anyone interested in Japanese art, and once again Phaidon must be praised for publishing another artist's work in such detail.' County Times, Welshpool, 8 October 2004