Couverture [410] Hokusai - Shoki Riding Shishi Lion

Introduction des Treasures of Japan collection by C.7 Design Studio, showcasing digital paintings and reproductions inspired by modern and historical masterpieces, originally produced by various masters of past and present. Here you veut find fully customizable products, featuring tribute to Katsushika Hokusai - Shoki Riding Shishi Lion, donc known as Samurai Riding a Lion. Katsushika Hokusai (葛 飾 北), October 31, 1760 (date exact questionable) - May 10, 1849) ce qu'a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the the the Edo period. Hé, ce qui a de l'influence chez Painters as Sesshu, and other styles of chinese painting. Born à Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富 嶽 de 三 Fugaku 六 Fujūroku-kei, c. 1831) which includes the internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820 s. Hokusai created the "Thirty-Six Views" both as a response to a domestic travel boom and as part of a personal obsession with Mount Fuji. C'est ce que ces series, specifically The Great Wave print and Fuji in Clear Weather, that Secured Hokusai's fame both au Japon et overseas. As historian Richard Lane concludes, "Indeed, if there is one work that made Hokusai's name, both in Japan and abroad, it be be this monumental print-series..." While Hokusai's work prior to this series is important, it was not until this series that he gained broad recognition. Ukiyo-e, or ukiyo-ye (浮; 世; pictures of the floating world), is a genre of woodblock prints and paintings that floururished in Japan from the 17th through 19th centuries. Aimed at the prosperous merchant class in the urbanizing Edo period (1603-1867), depicommunicommunimes of beautiful women; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flore et faune amonemes the popular le