How did Japan's 200-year lockdown under the Tokugawa government influence Hokusai's work?

Join curator Rosina Buckland and expert speakers Julie Nelson Davis, Timon Screech and Angus Lockyer as they explore the period in which Hokusai lived. One of the leading painters and print artists of 19th-century Japan, they'll discuss how Hokusai's work was affected by the isolationist foreign policies of the Tokugawa government, which included a ban on travel from 1639 to 1859.

Did these restrictions in fact drive a fascination with other cultures for Hokusai and the people of Japan?

Presented in partnership with the British Academy.

This event is part of the public programme accompanying Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything at the British Museum (30 September 2021 – 30 January 2022), sponsored by The Asahi Shimbun. The public programme is supported by the Japan Society.

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Image credit: Figure 1. Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), 'Virudhaka (Ruriō) killed by lightning' (The Great Picture Book of Everything). Ink on paper, 1820s–40s. Purchase funded by the Theresia Gerda Buch Bequest, in memory of her parents Rudolph and Julie Buch, with support from Art Fund (with a contribution from the Wolfson Foundation). © The Trustees of the British Museum

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