EXPO HOKUSAI - JOURNEY TO THE FOOT OF MOUNT FUJI

1 OCTOBER 2022 - 29 JANUARY 2023

The Departmental Museum of Asian Arts hosts the new exhibition "Hokusai: Journey to the foot of Mount Fuji".

Who doesn't know Hokusai and his Wave? Everyone has seen at least once in his life, in one form or another, the famous creation of the "Old Man crazy about painting".

A Japanese symbol par excellence, Sous la vague off Kanagawa is the result of an encounter between Asia and the West. The work thus creates a link that is at the heart of the project of the Departmental Museum of Asian Arts whose vocation is to share with its public the arts of Asia by integrating them into a global history of humanity.

Through one hundred and twenty-six prints by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) from the exceptional collection of Georges Leskowicz, the exhibition focuses on a well-known part of the master's production. The landscape, omnipresent in Japanese printmaking, takes on a new dimension in his work: Hokusai renews its codes from the first years of his career, then he revolutionizes the genre in the series of the 1830s to which belong the very famous Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji, the Waterfalls and the Bridges.