Hokusai Research Paper

Ruoyin (Rolling) Chen Page: 1
ARTH 251 (001)
Dr. C. D. Alison Baily
March 24th 2016
Hokusai’s mountains and seas Katsushika Hokusai was born in Edo (today’s Tokyo) and dedicated himself to art towards amounts of areas. For instance, he captured scenes varying from cityscapes to nature landscapes using watercolors and woodprints. In addition, Hokusai is one of the most well known Japanese artists in the world and the way he use non-Japanese styles to illustrate typical Japanese subjects makes his work widely spread all around the world. Furthermore, Hokusai’s artworks were influenced by traditional Japanese Kano School, the Chinese as well as Dutch landscape painting styles (Julyan H. E. Cartwright and Hisami Nakamura, 2009). Coming to Katsushika Hokusai’s masterpieces, the Fugaku Sanjurokkei, which are the thirty-six different views of Mount Fuji …show more content…
As enlarging my thinking, it could be the defense towards international commercial shipping and trading at that time. For instance, the Japanese society was suffering the thread of Russia invasion due to the failure of opening trade as well as infringements of Japanese sovereignty during that time (Christine M. E. Guth , 2011). Furthermore, another color woodblock print called Rowing Boats in Waves at Oshioku from Hokusai that successfully used the unique waves in various combinations of mountains and seas. In this artwork, we can see there’s a boat suffering between the two pitches of two great waves. In other words, this situation may be happen in the real life, but also can be a fantasy view of the artist. Hokusai combined the two ideas in a contradictory way in order to express cost and benefit of the flow of people and products Page:

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