Late Hokusai

Timothy Clark FBA is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Asia at the British Museum. Until 2019 he was Head of the Japanese Section at the Museum, where he led a major reinstallation of the Museum’s permanent collections in the Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries (2018). Tim curated and co-curated a succession of special exhibitions at the BM, most recently Shunga (2013), Hokusai (2017) and Manga (2018) and Nara (2019). From 2016−2019, he was Principal Investigator in the UK AHRC-funded international research project Late Hokusai: Thought, Technique, Society (2016−2019). His most recent publication is Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything (2021).

• Director’s Foreword (Hartwig Fischer)Prefaces from Late Hokusai project partnersIntroduction by Timothy Clark Part 1. Society 1. Tazawa Hiroyoshi, ‘Hokusai: Life and Works’2. Frank Feltens, ‘Between the Lines: Hokusai in his Letters’3. Alfred Haft, ‘Hokusai in Obuse: A Study of Cultural Mobility during the Late Edo Period’ 4. Julie Nelson Davis, ‘Partners in the Studio: Reconsidering Ōi and Hokusai’5. Ellis Tinios, ‘The Publisher Tōhekidō (Eirakuya Tōshirō) and the Hokusai “Brand”’ Part 2. Though6. Lucia Dolce, ‘The Buddhist World of Hokusai: Lotus Practices and the Religious Frenzy of Urban Edo’7. Janine Anderson Sawada, ‘Hokusai’s Devotion to Mt Fuji’8. Yamamoto Yoshitaka, ‘Japan and China in Hokusai’s Ehon kōkyō (Illustrated Classic of Filial Piety)’9. Angus Lockyer, ‘There be Dragons’10. Yasuhara Akio, ‘Research note: Hokusai’s Sources -- The Case of an Eighty-One-Scaled Dragon’ Part 3. Technique 11. Timothy Clark, ‘Connoisseurship of Late Hokusai Paintings: Slow Looking, Sharing Collections’ 12. John T. Carpenter,  ‘Shedding Light on the Authentic Genius of Hokusai the Painter: A Focus on Words from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York’13. Asano Shūgō, ‘Connoisseurship of Unsigned Drawings by Hokusai – A Group of Works in the Collection of Hokusaikan, Obuse’14. Capucine Korenberg, ‘The Making and Evolution of Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave’ Part 4. Legacy 15. Koto Sadamura, ‘Pursuit of the Man Behind the Art: Biographies of Hokusai and Kyōsai by Iijima Kyoshin’16. Roger Keyes, ‘Notes to the Catalogue Raisonné of the Single-Sheet Colour Woodblock Prints of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)’17. Ryōko Matsuba, ‘Facsimile Reproductions (Fukusei) of Hokusai’s Prints in the Meiji Era (1868-1912)’18. Andrew Hare, ‘A Technical Study of the Freer Version of Shell-Gathering at Low Tide (F1903.2)’19. Stephanie Santschi, of Zurich, ‘Hokusai Beyond the Database: Transforming Digital Archives into a Complex Collaborative Research Environment’20. Dominic Oldman, Diana Tanase and Cristina Giancristofaro, ‘Beyond the Catalogue’ Appendix 1 - Ellis Tinios, ‘A Chronological List of Late Hokusai Books with Short Bibliographic Notes’Appendix 2 – Peter Morse and Roger Keyes, ‘List of Locations of Hokusai Prints, 1813−48’ContributorsBibliographyIndex

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