Drawings were for a planned work by The Great Wave’s creator called The Great Picture Book of Everything
More than 100 picture postcard-sized drawings by the great Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai are to go on public display for the first time in two centuries after being acquired by the British Museum.
Its director, Hartwig Fischer, said the drawings were “remarkable and unique” and their rediscovery was “incredible”.
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