Hokusai Crane Lumbar Pillow

Cranes from Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing, circa 1811 Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. His best-known print is The Great Wave off Kanagawa, the first in the series 36 Views of Mount Fuji. His work had a profound influence on, not only Japanese followers like Hiroshige, but many western artists of the 19th and 0th centuries. In the second decade of the 19th century he created a series of art manuals. The cranes is from the first of them, Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing, circa 1811.During this period he also created several volumes of manga which were very popular.