Katsushika Hokusai: The Woodblock Virtuoso Who Enthralled the World

Portraits of Ishikawa Ebizō (left; courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Sakata Hangorō (right; courtesy Tokyo National Museum/Colbase).

Den’en kōraku (A Trip to the Country) from Otoko tōka (Men’s Stamping Song). (Courtesy Tokyo National Museum/Colbase)

Nibijinzu (Two Beauties). (Courtesy MOA Museum of Art)

An illustration by Hokusai from Chinsetsu yumiharizuki (Strange Tales of the Crescent Moon) by Kyokutei Bakin. (Courtesy National Diet Library Digital Collection)

The Western-style work Yotsuya Jūnisō (Jūnisō at Yotsuya). (Courtesy Tokyo National Museum/Colbase)

First volume of Hokusai Manga. (Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Kanagawa-oki nami ura (The Great Wave off Kanagawa) from the Fugaku sanjūrokkei (Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji) series. (Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Shimotsuke Kurokami-yama Kirifuri no taki (Kirifuri Waterfall at Kurokami Mountain in Shimotsuke) from the Shokoku taki meguri (A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces) series. (Courtesy Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection)

Tanabata no Fuji (Fuji at Tanabata) from Fugaku hyakkei (One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji). (Courtesy Tokyo National Museum/Colbase)

Les Trente-six vues de la Tour Eiffel (Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower) by Henri Rivière was inspired by Hokusai’s Mount Fuji landscapes. (Courtesy Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum/Uragami Memorial Hall)