Hokusai Prints Note Cards - 12 Cards (9780804858069)

This beautiful stationery set includes six prints by Katsushika Hokusai. The artist behind the world-famous "The Great Wave off Kanagawa", Hokusai lived and worked in what is now modern day Tokyo during the Edo Period.

Blank inside for your own message, these cards are perfect to convey a heartfelt note for any occasion.

This note card set includes:

• 12 folded blank note cards: 4 x 6 inches (10.1 x 15.2 cm)
• 12 sealable envelopes with decorative metallic embellishments
• 6 unique designs (2 cards of each design)
• A bonus card with a brief history on Hokusai's life and art

About the Author:
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was an influential artist and printmaker. Born in Edo (modern day Tokyo), he displayed artistic talent from a young age, and at 19 formally joined the studio of ukiyo-e artist Katsukawa Shunsho. In addition to his famous woodblock prints—the most famous of which is "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" (1830-32)—he also illustrated board games, drawing instruction books, paper lanterns and dioramas. Hokusai produced more than 30,000 works in his long career, and greatly influenced the impressionist painters of the nineteenth century; Monet acquired 23 of his pieces, while Degas cited Hokusai as the inspiration behind his sketches of the human form.

Tuttle Studio draws inspiration from the modern and traditional cultures of Asia to create its language workbooks and resources, journals, stationery, gift wrapping products and origami paper. It is a division of Tuttle Publishing, a leading publisher of books on the languages, history, art and cultures of Asia. The company was founded in 1832 in Rutland, Vermont (USA) and opened a branch in Tokyo, Japan in 1948.