British Museum Hokusai Katsushika more than 100 unpublished works online released on September 5 at 6:54 pm

The British Museum in Britain has opened 100 online works, claiming that more than 100 unpublished works of Japan's leading ukiyo-e artist, Hokusai Katsushika, were found in France.

On the 3rd, the British Museum announced that it has collected 103 unpublished works by Ukiyo-e master Hokusai Katsushika in the late Edo period, and has begun to open them online.



According to the announcement, these works were depicted in 1829 as illustrations for the book "All things picture book encyclopedia", but the book itself was not published.



After that, the work was owned by a French jeweler known as a collector of Japanese art, and after being auctioned in 1948, it is believed that it was owned by a private French collector, and last year in Paris, France. It was found in.



Hokusai drew these works about two years before he worked on the masterpiece "Thirty-six Views of Futaki", and it is said that his creative activities at the time were not active due to his wife's death and stroke.



Regarding this, the British Museum said, "At the turning point of Hokusai's career, it actually showed new creativity," and the discovery of the work may trigger a rethink of Hokusai's life I point out.



The work can be viewed online by anyone and will be exhibited at the British Museum in the future.