Edo Period Ukiyo-e Botanical Art (Katsushika Hokusai)

This is a work by Hokusai, belonging to the Edo period. The piece is mounted in a simple wooden frame with an acrylic board of shikishi size. Accompanied by photographs, the same work is also exhibited in museums and art galleries. Katsushika Hokusai was a ukiyo-e artist from the late Edo period. He depicted various human postures, historical figures such as courtesans, sumo wrestlers, and actors, landscapes like Mount Fuji, waterfalls, and bridges, as well as insects, birds, flowers, plants, buildings, Buddhist implements, and mythical creatures such as monsters, elephants, tigers, and dragons, along with natural phenomena like waves, wind, and rain, producing over 34,000 works. This is a complete 15-volume collection of paintings depicting various subjects including people, animals, plants, scenery, architecture, and implements. Twelve volumes were published during Hokusai's lifetime, with three more published posthumously.