Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mount Fuji was especially celebrated. The series was published between 1830 and 1834 and initially consisted of 36 works, as evidenced by its title, but grew to include ten ...

Hokusai was obsessed with achieving immortality through his art. His woodblock prints would cross cultural boundaries. Warhol produced his version of “The Great Wave” in the 1980s.

“Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World,” a multimedia extravaganza inspired by the art of 18th- and 19th-century Japan, is on view through September at the Cleve Carney Museum.

Born in 1760, Katsushika Hokusai took the medium known as ukiyo-e to new artistic heights and popularity through his unique use of colour and dynamic composition. Hokusai's depictions of Mount ...