Experience Designmuseum Danmark’s collection of Japanese woodcuts in a smaller exhibition.
Designmuseum Danmark’s collections include 40 woodcuts by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, who lived from 1760 to 1849 during the Edo period (1603-1868). In the last approximately 100 years of the period, woodcuts evolved from being hand-coloured prints with one colour to prints with up to ten colours as the most common.
Hokusai is best known for his landscape depictions, including the print Under the Great Wave Off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), which is part of his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjũrokkei). The series is from the 1830s, a period considered by some to be the golden age of Japanese woodcuts.
Credits:
Top photo: Nakahara in Sagami Province (Sõshũ Nakahara) from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjũrokkei), 1830-1831.
Left-aligned photo: Emperor Tenchi (Tenchi tennõ) from the series One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets, Told by a Wet Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), ca. 1835-1836.
Japanese Woodcuts: Hokusai
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