True blue: Hokusai uncovered

Although catalogued as ‘a 19th century Japanese woodblock print’, the signature to a scene of a boat with Mount Fuji beyond gave a clue to its creator.

It was that of the great Edo period ukiyo-e painter and printmaker Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849).…

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