Boy and Mount Fuji Hokusai Japanese Fine Art

Boy and Mt. Fuji 葛飾北斎 「富士と笛吹童図」 painting on silk, 1839 Boy sitting on a tree branch playing a flute in the foreground, Mt. Fuji in the distance. Freer Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington D.C. Katsushika Hokusai (October or November 1760–May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. In his time, he was Japan's leading expert on Chinese painting. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best-known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, c. 1831, which includes the iconic and internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s. Vintage retro cute cool colourful beautiful Japanese Asian artistic elegant decor spiritual religious Shinto nature landscape fine art painting.