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Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything Hardcover – December 22, 2021

by Timothy Clark (Author)
4.9 4.9 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
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Shortlisted in the Exhibition Catalogues category in the British Book Design and Production Awards 2022

Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) is considered by many to be Japan’s greatest artist. During his seventy-year career, he produced a considerable oeuvre of some 3,000 color prints, illustrations for over 200 books, hundreds of drawings, and over 1,000 paintings. This exciting collection of 103 exquisite small drawings were made for an unpublished book called The Great Picture Book of Everything – featuring wide-ranging subjects from depictions of religious, mythological, historical, and literary figures to animals, birds, flowers, and other natural phenomena, as well as landscapes. They are dominated by subjects that relate to ancient China and India, also Southeast and Central Asia. Many subjects found in the collection are not found in previous Hokusai works, including fascinating imaginings of the origin of human culture in ancient China.

This beautifully produced book draws on the latest research, illustrating the complete set of drawings, published for the first time.

Table of Contents

Directors’ foreword

Introduction
Commentaries for 103 Hokusai drawings
Concordance of exhibits

Catalogue of works – all 103 drawings reproduced at actual size:
India
China
Natural world
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    176 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    British Museum
  4. Publication date
    December 22, 2021
  5. Dimensions
    8.74 x 8.27 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0714124893
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0714124896
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About the Author

Timothy Clark is an honorary research fellow at the British Museum. Previously Head of the Japan section in the Department of Asia at the British Museum, Clark is an internationally renowned Hokusai scholar and has researched and published widely on the artist’s life and work. Previous titles include: 'Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave' (BM/T&H), 'Shunga: sex and pleasure in Japanese art' (BM Press), 'Hokusai’s Great Wave' (BM Press).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ British Museum; Reprint edition (December 22, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0714124893
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0714124896
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.81 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.74 x 8.27 inches
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James
5.0 out of 5 stars Documenting Hokusai's graphic output
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2022
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This book includes one hundred beautiful b/w reproductions from the British Museum's collection of Hokusai's drawings for "The Great Picture Book of Everything." The British Museum's holdings are approximately half of Hokusai's graphic output, the other being held in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Additionally, the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris holds a collection of support mock-up materials from "The Great Picture Book of Everything." This book clearly documents the background for the creation of TGPBE. The book is divided into four sections: A scholarly introduction to the entire TGPBE in the British Museum's and MFA's museum's collections and the catalogue of reproductions from the British Museum with short descriptions of each referencing Hokusai's inspiration- Buddhism and India, China and Beyond, and The Natural World. While the British Museum book is affordable (Amazon), the MFA Boston catalogue is extremely expensive. To my knowledge, the Biblioteque Nationale has no publication. As with other British Museum publications, the printing and binding are impeccable.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully illustrated
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2022
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If you can't get to the museum to see the exhibit, this is the next best thing. The photographs are large and beautiful, the text illuminating. Really a gorgeous and interesting book.
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Alejandro Pescador
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb drawings by Hokusai never before collected in a book
Reviewed in Mexico on June 29, 2022
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Hokusai was a towering artist so finding this collection of his drawings is almost supernatural
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Babbage
5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely book, complements the recent British Museum exhibition.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 5, 2023
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Lovely book, complements the recent British Museum exhibition.
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Stefano
5.0 out of 5 stars Bellissimo libro
Reviewed in Italy on May 20, 2022
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Se amate Hokusai da non perdere
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Andy
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic quality just in the wrong format..
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 1, 2021
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The quality is what you'd expect of a book from the british museum. The bindings fantastic, beautiful cover... that came unsealed and delivered loose in a large box. Luckily it arrived with very light corner damage. Thanks Amazon!!

The contents are what I was after and it doesn't dissapoint. Hokusai's (or at least one of the names he was known by) work is outstanding. With a level of creativity that i only hope to come close to when I hopefully might reach 70.

If i don't pass out from the aneurysm that looking at the page layouts is giving me. 103 portrait and landscape images... in a square book... that has enough white space below each image you could effectively practice your drawing or write indepth cliff notes on each one. Either way you got space... which could have been used to make those images really shine by just stretching the book out a couple more inches.

Anyways... still a fantastic book.
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Andy
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic quality just in the wrong format..
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 1, 2021
The quality is what you'd expect of a book from the british museum. The bindings fantastic, beautiful cover... that came unsealed and delivered loose in a large box. Luckily it arrived with very light corner damage. Thanks Amazon!!

The contents are what I was after and it doesn't dissapoint. Hokusai's (or at least one of the names he was known by) work is outstanding. With a level of creativity that i only hope to come close to when I hopefully might reach 70.

If i don't pass out from the aneurysm that looking at the page layouts is giving me. 103 portrait and landscape images... in a square book... that has enough white space below each image you could effectively practice your drawing or write indepth cliff notes on each one. Either way you got space... which could have been used to make those images really shine by just stretching the book out a couple more inches.

Anyways... still a fantastic book.
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GCW
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, terrible shipping from UK
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 25, 2021
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I love the book, but cost of shipping from UK was $23+/-. The book arrived in a thin cardboard oversized envelope with frayed and broken corners from the book sliding around during shipping. Despite the cost or the book, $34US and the shipping and handling price; the book was unwrapped and arrived with a warped hard back cover. Very disappointing shipping attention for a very nice book.
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