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“Personal Wepage on Hokusai includes a bio and gallery”

“The Metropolitan Museum of Art's entry on "The Great Wave at Kanagawa.”

“Personal Webpage on Viewing Japanese Prints. General background on Hokusai, Edo and Osaka Ukiyo-e, and other print artists.”

“Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Database with approximately 760 images of Hokusai print. Go to Collections and do a search.”

“All I have produced before the age of seventy is not worth taking into account. At seventy-three I have learned a little about the real structure of nature, of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes and insects. In consequence when I am eighty, I shall have made still more progress. At ninety I shall penetrate the mystery of things; at one hundred I shall certainly have reached a marvelous stage; and when I am a hundred and ten, everything I do, be it a dot or a line, will be alive. I beg those who live as long as I to see if I do not keep my word. Written at the age of seventy five by me, once Hokusai, today Gwakyo Rojin, the old man mad about drawing.”

“Personal Webpage on Hokusai and Japanese Art”

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