As you know, Hokusai (born Tokitarō, 1760-1849) was to Japanese graphic art as Matsuo Basho (1644–1694) was to the Japanese haiku; and both's works are as "modern" today as they were then. Everyone knows Hokusai's signature works of Mt Fuji (36 of them) and the "Great Wave" (off Kanagawa), and most know his erotic prints where the phalluses are what your spam filter's offers only wish for; but he did much more.
And the Guimet does justice to all his art: be they wonderfully alive animals, glorious flowers, nifty demons and phantoms, landscapes and seascapes, fans and screens. A definite summer Go!
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