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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 23:46, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
There are many styles: Illusionist, Surrealism, Abstract expressionism... What type of style is The Great Wave?? Also, did he do a piece called "ghost of kahara"? I can't find it anywhere on the web..It's most likely spelled wrong. Please message me back at my username. -- Cyberman 03:26, September 10, 2005 (UTC)
I think the pictures are too big. Because I don't have nice tools like Adobe PhotoShop, can someone scale them down? -- Taku 00:04 Jan 7, 2003 (UTC)
All resized. -- dreamword
Following Wikipedia policy on article names (which says "What .. would the average user of the Wikipedia put into the search engine?") we have been listing Japanese woodblock prints artists under the names they are commonly known by in the West - which means we do not use their complete names (which are rarely used in the West, and for artists of this era change over time anyway). Please see Talk:Sharaku for an extended discussion on this topic. Please leave them where they are. Thank you. Noel 20:38, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
// Next time give your stuff a title so it can be sorted. Gah.
Hopefully this won't tick too many people off, but I removed references to tsunami with regards to Hokusai's famous Great Wave picture. He himself calls it an okinami (沖波) not a tsunami (津波) in the title. This may seem like hair-splitting, but especially after the recent tsunami tragedy in SE Asia, it would be nice to clear up the misconception that any "big wave" is a tsunami. CES 00:39, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Deleted "including especially that of
Shiba Gokan, from whom he gained some fragmentary knowledge of European methods" because I was unable to confirm the existence of Gokan anywhere else and it seems like a confusion with the novel style "gokan". Got any info on "Shiba Gokan"? -- dreamword
Why is there an external link to mandelbrot sets, when neither mandelbrots nor fractals are mentioned in the article itself (that I saw, hopefully I didn't just overread it). -- Syrthiss 15:20, August 11, 2005 (UTC)
I found that putting in his most famous work "The Great Wave of Kanagawa" produced no results. Going to the kanagawa article also produced no results. Only after looking up tidal wave -> tsunami I got a link to this artist. I don't know how to fix this but "The Great Wave of Kanagawa" should link to this page.
Why is the picture of the wave first described in this article as "In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa" and later in the article as "Beneath the Great Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa"? That's quite confusing! -- Blenda Lovelace 17:01, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
I've heard somewhere Hokusai painted the hummingbird (correctly) as hovering in the air w/o support, contradicting the conventional wisdom of his time and more than a hundred years before the question has been settled by photography - is it true? 89.102.137.191 15:25, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The article says it was ‘The Great Wave’ print that initially received, and continues to receive, acclaim and popularity in the Western world. What is the status of the Great Wave print in Japan? Is it as famous or highly regarded as it is in the West? Maybe someone can address this point in the article. Happy editing, Wile E. Heresiarch 04:09, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
I post this here, because there is no information on what nom d'artiste is. While I didnt look very hard, I couldn't find any information about it.
I think its french, so it'd be nice to have the explination as to why it's used... if it means pen-name, (like I think it means) why not say that somewhere? for the benifit of other people like me who don't think of that. Thanks. 69.85.154.79 04:45, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi all, I wrote what I hope is a larger/better bio page for Hokusai, which is now available on Citizendium here. I don't have the time or energy to merge that with what's already here, but if someone else feels up to it I hope they will do it; he deserves a bit longer entry than we have here now. If so, make sure to click on the 'Works', 'Bibliography' etc tabs, as a lot of useful info is on these subsidiary pages. Noel (talk) 16:58, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
There's a bit of a contradiction here for death dates. The infobox says 18 April, while the Biography section claims 10 May. -- Gwern (contribs) 04:38 4 March 2008 (GMT)
How did Katsushika Hokusai die?-- xgmx ( T | C | D | R | DR)
The English version of the article says he chose "Gakyō Rōjin Manji" as a nickname in his later years, but the Japanese version separates it into two different names that he used at the time, "Gakyō Rōjin" (画狂老人) and "Manji" (卍). Can anyone clarify this? Douggers ( talk) 02:47, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Why is there no reference to his production of erotic prints? 93.96.148.42 ( talk) 04:08, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps along with the Shunga comment above, I noticed there is no mention of his "One Hundred Tales" from which at least two other famous works by him come from (the Banchō Sarayashiki and the lantern ghost painting). There should definitely be mention of this. The article focuses mostly just on his "Views" series... 110.5.56.60 ( talk) 14:09, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
In the West, the artist may be known for his woodblock print of The Great Wave off Kanagawa. [1]? Why remove this? Has a wikilink and a reference. And also see discussion above. Hafspajen ( talk) 03:51, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
References
Not Found. The requested URL "/collections/search_art.asp?coll_artist=Hokusai" was not found on this server. -- 85.181.134.62 ( talk) 16:57, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
"Hokusai holds a central role in my current view of fractals as a notion familiar to man, in one form or another, since time immemorial."
Mandelbrot gives The Great Wave, Raiden Spirit of Thunder and Kirifuri Waterfall as examples.
Also an article in Notes and Records shows how Hokusai demonstrates awareness of self-similarity in his 1812 Ryakuga Haya-oshie textbook on how to copy shapes from nature.
Not sure if it's worth mentioning in the article, but I found it interesting. -- Hillbillyholiday talk 05:04, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
The text says: "He produced many brush paintings, called surimono..." The Wikipedia article titled Surimono says: "Surimono ... are a genre of Japanese woodblock print." These don't seem to mean the same thing. Perhaps some expert could clarify just what they are? Thanks Campolongo ( talk) 08:47, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
NightspectreIncarnate has repeadedly added the identifier "illustrator" without a source. An "illustrator" is someone who "draws or creates pictures for magazines, books, advertising, etc."—Hokusai did none of this. It is also anachronistic and redundant to other identifiers. Aza24 ( talk) 20:57, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
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on the course page. Student editor(s):
Firefliy0922. Peer reviewers:
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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 23:46, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
There are many styles: Illusionist, Surrealism, Abstract expressionism... What type of style is The Great Wave?? Also, did he do a piece called "ghost of kahara"? I can't find it anywhere on the web..It's most likely spelled wrong. Please message me back at my username. -- Cyberman 03:26, September 10, 2005 (UTC)
I think the pictures are too big. Because I don't have nice tools like Adobe PhotoShop, can someone scale them down? -- Taku 00:04 Jan 7, 2003 (UTC)
All resized. -- dreamword
Following Wikipedia policy on article names (which says "What .. would the average user of the Wikipedia put into the search engine?") we have been listing Japanese woodblock prints artists under the names they are commonly known by in the West - which means we do not use their complete names (which are rarely used in the West, and for artists of this era change over time anyway). Please see Talk:Sharaku for an extended discussion on this topic. Please leave them where they are. Thank you. Noel 20:38, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
// Next time give your stuff a title so it can be sorted. Gah.
Hopefully this won't tick too many people off, but I removed references to tsunami with regards to Hokusai's famous Great Wave picture. He himself calls it an okinami (沖波) not a tsunami (津波) in the title. This may seem like hair-splitting, but especially after the recent tsunami tragedy in SE Asia, it would be nice to clear up the misconception that any "big wave" is a tsunami. CES 00:39, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Deleted "including especially that of
Shiba Gokan, from whom he gained some fragmentary knowledge of European methods" because I was unable to confirm the existence of Gokan anywhere else and it seems like a confusion with the novel style "gokan". Got any info on "Shiba Gokan"? -- dreamword
Why is there an external link to mandelbrot sets, when neither mandelbrots nor fractals are mentioned in the article itself (that I saw, hopefully I didn't just overread it). -- Syrthiss 15:20, August 11, 2005 (UTC)
I found that putting in his most famous work "The Great Wave of Kanagawa" produced no results. Going to the kanagawa article also produced no results. Only after looking up tidal wave -> tsunami I got a link to this artist. I don't know how to fix this but "The Great Wave of Kanagawa" should link to this page.
Why is the picture of the wave first described in this article as "In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa" and later in the article as "Beneath the Great Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa"? That's quite confusing! -- Blenda Lovelace 17:01, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
I've heard somewhere Hokusai painted the hummingbird (correctly) as hovering in the air w/o support, contradicting the conventional wisdom of his time and more than a hundred years before the question has been settled by photography - is it true? 89.102.137.191 15:25, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The article says it was ‘The Great Wave’ print that initially received, and continues to receive, acclaim and popularity in the Western world. What is the status of the Great Wave print in Japan? Is it as famous or highly regarded as it is in the West? Maybe someone can address this point in the article. Happy editing, Wile E. Heresiarch 04:09, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
I post this here, because there is no information on what nom d'artiste is. While I didnt look very hard, I couldn't find any information about it.
I think its french, so it'd be nice to have the explination as to why it's used... if it means pen-name, (like I think it means) why not say that somewhere? for the benifit of other people like me who don't think of that. Thanks. 69.85.154.79 04:45, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi all, I wrote what I hope is a larger/better bio page for Hokusai, which is now available on Citizendium here. I don't have the time or energy to merge that with what's already here, but if someone else feels up to it I hope they will do it; he deserves a bit longer entry than we have here now. If so, make sure to click on the 'Works', 'Bibliography' etc tabs, as a lot of useful info is on these subsidiary pages. Noel (talk) 16:58, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
There's a bit of a contradiction here for death dates. The infobox says 18 April, while the Biography section claims 10 May. -- Gwern (contribs) 04:38 4 March 2008 (GMT)
How did Katsushika Hokusai die?-- xgmx ( T | C | D | R | DR)
The English version of the article says he chose "Gakyō Rōjin Manji" as a nickname in his later years, but the Japanese version separates it into two different names that he used at the time, "Gakyō Rōjin" (画狂老人) and "Manji" (卍). Can anyone clarify this? Douggers ( talk) 02:47, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Why is there no reference to his production of erotic prints? 93.96.148.42 ( talk) 04:08, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps along with the Shunga comment above, I noticed there is no mention of his "One Hundred Tales" from which at least two other famous works by him come from (the Banchō Sarayashiki and the lantern ghost painting). There should definitely be mention of this. The article focuses mostly just on his "Views" series... 110.5.56.60 ( talk) 14:09, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
In the West, the artist may be known for his woodblock print of The Great Wave off Kanagawa. [1]? Why remove this? Has a wikilink and a reference. And also see discussion above. Hafspajen ( talk) 03:51, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
References
Not Found. The requested URL "/collections/search_art.asp?coll_artist=Hokusai" was not found on this server. -- 85.181.134.62 ( talk) 16:57, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
"Hokusai holds a central role in my current view of fractals as a notion familiar to man, in one form or another, since time immemorial."
Mandelbrot gives The Great Wave, Raiden Spirit of Thunder and Kirifuri Waterfall as examples.
Also an article in Notes and Records shows how Hokusai demonstrates awareness of self-similarity in his 1812 Ryakuga Haya-oshie textbook on how to copy shapes from nature.
Not sure if it's worth mentioning in the article, but I found it interesting. -- Hillbillyholiday talk 05:04, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
The text says: "He produced many brush paintings, called surimono..." The Wikipedia article titled Surimono says: "Surimono ... are a genre of Japanese woodblock print." These don't seem to mean the same thing. Perhaps some expert could clarify just what they are? Thanks Campolongo ( talk) 08:47, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
NightspectreIncarnate has repeadedly added the identifier "illustrator" without a source. An "illustrator" is someone who "draws or creates pictures for magazines, books, advertising, etc."—Hokusai did none of this. It is also anachronistic and redundant to other identifiers. Aza24 ( talk) 20:57, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
References
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cite journal}}
: CS1 maint: date and year (
link)
{{
cite journal}}
: CS1 maint: date and year (
link)