Seaside Village in Winter, from Hokusai’s Album of Realistic Pictures (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Seaside Village in Winter, from Hokusai’s Album of Realistic Pictures (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Katsushika Hokusai

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

For an intact copy of the illustrated book by Katsushika Hokusai from which this unsigned winter landscape was extracted, see 2013.719.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Seaside Village in Winter, from Hokusai’s Album of Realistic Pictures (Hokusai shashin gafu)Seaside Village in Winter, from Hokusai’s Album of Realistic Pictures (Hokusai shashin gafu)Seaside Village in Winter, from Hokusai’s Album of Realistic Pictures (Hokusai shashin gafu)Seaside Village in Winter, from Hokusai’s Album of Realistic Pictures (Hokusai shashin gafu)Seaside Village in Winter, from Hokusai’s Album of Realistic Pictures (Hokusai shashin gafu)

The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.