Hokusai's everyday Japan takes center stage in major Rome retrospective

Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome hosts an exhibition of exceptional importance: the largest exhibition ever held in Italy dedicated to Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), the most famous Japanese artist and one of the most powerful and influential figures in global visual culture. Hokusai is the leading figure of the artistic season of the Edo period (1603–1868), an extraordinary era in which the culture of the “Floating World,” Ukiyo-e, flourished – destined to profoundly transform the Japanese imagination and, later, the Western one. A prolific painter and printmaker, visionary and tireless, Hokusai is known worldwide above all for his celebrated Ukiyo-e prints, in which nature, the movement of water, landscapes, human figures, and everyday life in Japan are transformed into images of striking poetic power and modernity. Visitors will journey through timeless masterpieces and extraordinary visual inventions: from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō to the