ABSTRACT
Hokusai is generally classed as a landscape artist, as his chief work was done in this field, though he drew almost everything that could be drawn. He lived entirely for his work and became the master-artist of Japan, dying at the age of eighty-nine, after a life of incessant work and almost continuous poverty, with the regret upon his lips that he had not been granted a larger spell of life to devote to his idol art. Modern reproductions and reprints of all the foregoing series are met with, particularly his “Imagery of the Poets,” “Waterfalls,” and “Views of Fuji” series. Besides the foregoing landscape scenes and innumerable single prints, Hokusai designed some very fine, and very rare, bird and flower studies, of which modern reproductions exist, many surimono, and a very large number of book illustrations.
