Li Kui, the Black Whirlwind

Buying a Hokusai painted by his own hand

Hokusai is known for prints. He also painted directly with the brush — one sheet, one hand, no block between. The gallery currently holds twelve album leaves, five hanging-scroll works in six scrolls, three fan paintings — twenty paintings in all, one of them sold — and three Thirty-six Views reprinted and mounted as scrolls.

Supervised by Yoshihisa Endo, Representative Director, Japan Art Academy