Hokusai Prints and Manga

24 March 2012

This is the 250th year anniversary of Hokusai's birth.  The Museum of Kyoto held a wonderful exhibit of prints and manga, on loan for the first time from the Honolulu Academy of Arts (having been donated there by James Mitchner).  It was a spectacular collection, and one could have easily spent days peering at each print, thinking about marvelous color and design, the fascinating details of daily life, the many different scenes of Japan and so on.  I restrained myself to just the eight pictures above, but that was difficult.

It was a great way to spend a cold and rainy spring day.

Much love to all.