Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave

. Timothy Clark is Head of the Japanese Section in the Department of Asia at the British Museum

286 illustrations. A major publication on Hokusai’s remarkable late work, incorporating fresh scholarship on the sublime paintings and prints the artist created in the last thirty years of his life An acknowledged master during his lifetime, Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life, right up to his death at the age of ninety. The publication gives due attention to the contribution of Hokusai’s daughter Eijo (Oi), also an accomplished artist. Exhibitions since the 1980s have presented his long career as a chronological sequence. His late subjects and styles were based on a mastery of eclectic Japanese, Chinese, and European techniques and an encyclo

. About the Author Timothy Clark is Head of the Japanese Section in the Department of Asia at the British Museum