Kanagawa-kei items/read again the talent of the genius Katsushika Hokusai
Large-sized nishiki-e / circa 1831 / rayon fujietto / indigo printing / white pearl button "Oki Kanagawa" means the offing of Kanagawa (Kanagawa Ward, Yokohama City), a post town on the Tokaido, so it depicts the scenery seen from the present-day Tokyo Bay. Mt.Fuji standing neatly facing the powerful waves. It is attractive that you can enjoy Hokusai's painting power, which expresses magnificent scenery by contrasting stillness and movement. Also, Hokusai used vero indigo to paint the waves, so the real indigo dye used by Hokusai is used for the print of this aloha shirt.
Katsushika Hokusai is a representative artist of Japan. It was introduced overseas for the first time at the Paris World Exposition of 1867, and its bold composition and colors triggered the birth of Impressionism in Western art, and had a great influence on painters such as Van Gogh and Monet who left their names in Western art history. .
KaraKuBuy x "Kanagawa Offshore Wave"
Inspired by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai's woodblock prints, he broke the boundaries of clothing materials and perfectly embodied the Great Wave off Kanagawa on T-shirts, shirts and shorts.
