The painter Katsushika Hokusai, is a world famous genius painter from Japan. His masterpiece “Kanagawa Okinamiura” is well known outside Japan as "The Great Wave" . It is said to be as famous as Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Hokusai was the only Japanese person to be selected as one of the "100 most important people of the last 1000 years" by LIFE magazine in the U.S., along with Edison and Einstein. In recent years, a book about his life has been published, and a dramatization and film version of his life have also been announced, attracting attention from around the world. We put on stage a completely new theatrical artwork based on this master painter, combining body performance and high level digital projections. We will present the life of Hokusai and display his work in an unprecedented way that will mesmerize the public. And, through our work, we hope that many people will rediscover the importance of love for humanity.
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Katsushika Hokusai is not only one of Japan’s leading ukiyoe artists, but also one of the most famous Japanese in the world. Katsushika Hokusai is famous for his “36 Views of Mount Fuji” series of landscape paintings featuring Mount Fuji. After the death of Hokusai, his fame spread to Europe, where his innovative works surprised impressionist painters such as Van Gogh, Monet, and Degas, and influenced the “Japonism” that swept the West in the 19th century. The famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright is also known to have been influenced by Hokusai. Hokusai is an internationally acclaimed painter rather than a Japanese painter.