HOKUSAI The British Museum Book of Postcards "At the age of seventy-five, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) observed, "All that I made before seventy is insignificant." He was not being that ungenerous about the work he produced before old age: Hokusai was a late-blooming artist. Regardless of his remarks, Hokusai's 1830-1833 series Fugaku sanjurokkei (Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji), begun when he was seventy years old, is his masterpiece; one of its images, the revelatory Under the Wave, off Kanagawa (also known as The Great Wave), is probably the most widely recognized Japanese artwork in existence. Most of the postcards in this book are reproduced from the series. All reveal why Hokusai's art was such a profound influence on French Impressionism and the subsequent stylistic ventures toward abstraction in Western art. Published with The British Museum." Size: 4 3/4 in x 6 7/8 in Contains 28 oversized postcards perforated for removal condition: LIKE NEW; price tag residue on back cover I received this as a gift and it has sat on a shelf. All postcards are attached. Japan postcards art books