Katsushika Hokusai was one of Japan's best-known artists- and quite the eccentric. Renown for using incantations to ward off people, as well as his dreadful finances, Hokusai remained active and creative throughout his life. His best works were created in his seventies: landscapes of Mt. Fuji, grotesque illustrations of romantic novels, manga series capturing the common people, emotion-filled paintings of birds and flowers. Join The Smithsonian Channel for this eye-opening portrait of one of Japan's most important artists.
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RECREATING A GENIUS Artists from a Tokyo art and research institute try to recapture Hokusai's woodblock prints using original production methods.
