Hokusai exhibition coming to Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

Boston”™s Museum of Fine Arts has announced the upcoming exhibition “Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence,” which will run March 26 through July 16.

Billed as “a new approach to the work of the ever-popular Katsushika Hokusai (1760”“1849),” the major exhibition will focus on the Japanese artist”™s impact on other artists, both during his lifetime and beyond. The exhibition will feature more than 90 woodblock prints, paintings and illustrated books by Hokusai along with more than 200 works by his teachers, students, rivals, and admirers ”“ including his daughter Katsushika ÅŒi, his contemporaries Utagawa Hiroshige and Utagawa Kuniyoshi, the 19th-century French Japonistes, and modern and contemporary artists including Loïs Mailou Jones, John Cederquist and Yoshitomo Nara.

Entrance to the exhibition requires a timed-entry ticket (general admission included). Tickets go on sale via the museum”™s website to the public on Feb. 14 and to museum members on Feb. 8.

The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831) by Hokusai