Hokusai

[ hoh-kuh-sahy, hoh-kuh-sahy; Japanese haw-koo-sahy ]

noun

1. Ka·tsu·shi·ka [kah, -ts, oo, -, shee, -kah], 1760–1849, Japanese painter and illustrator.

Hokusai

/ ˈhəʊkʊˌsaɪ; ˌhəʊkʊˈsaɪ /

noun

1. HokusaiKatsushika17601849MJapaneseARTS AND CRAFTS: artist Katsushika (ˌkætsuːˈʃiːkə). 1760–1849, Japanese artist, noted for the draughtsmanship of his colour wood-block prints, which influenced the impressionists

Example Sentences

But this latest milkshaking is a particularly beautiful instance of the visual potency of the practice: the Hokusai wave of the shake itself arcing toward Farage’s face, the beverage lid soaring free in the air.

From Slate

Jitendra V. Singh was nearly 60, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, when he finally bought his first woodblock print by the revered Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai, whose work from the Edo 19th century includes a masterly series, “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.”

From New York Times

It was 2013, and Dr. Singh was enchanted by Hokusai’s view of the sacred mountain in Japan, central to each image in the artist’s series: sometimes dominant, sometimes in the background, but always present.

From New York Times

“I have a thing about mountains,” Dr. Singh, now 70 and retired, said during an interview in his apartment in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. “To me Hokusai captured the essence of the mountain.”

From New York Times

Jitendra V. Singh was nearly 60, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, when he finally bought his first woodblock print by the revered Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai, whose work from the Edo 19th century includes a masterly series, “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.”

From New York Times