Styles Genres Museums Artists Support

An open visual arts database with 1,000,000+ artworks, 85,000+ artists, and 1,800+ styles spanning centuries of human creativity.

Browse

Styles
Genres
Museums
Artists
Favorites

Popular Styles

Impressionism
Romanticism
Surrealism
Pop Art
Cubism
Realism

Museums

Art Institute of Chicago
MoMA
Rijksmuseum
Cleveland Museum of Art
The MET
Louvre

VisualArtsDB is free and open for everyone.

Support the project

© 2026 VisualArtsDB

Chinese Boys Learning to Write and Paint by Katsushika Hokusai — VisualArtsDB

Home
Print
Chinese Boys Learning to Write and Paint

Chinese Boys Learning to Write and Paint

Chinese Boys Learning to Write and Paint

Katsushika Hokusai

1775–1795

Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 15 3/8 x 10 1/8 in. (39.1 x 25.7 cm)
Genre: Print
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Tags

paintingWritingboys

More by Katsushika Hokusai

Memorial Anniversary (Shunen), from the series "One Hundred Ghost Tales (Hyaku monogatari)"

Memorial Anniversary (Shunen), from the series "One Hundred Ghost Tales (Hyaku monogatari)"

Katsushika Hokusai, 1831

Yoshida on the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō Yoshida), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Yoshida on the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō Yoshida), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Katsushika Hokusai, 1830

Evening Glow at Jungai (Jungai sekishō), from the series Eight Views of the Ryūkyū Islands (Ryūkyū hakkei)

Evening Glow at Jungai (Jungai sekishō), from the series Eight Views of the Ryūkyū Islands (Ryūkyū hakkei)

Katsushika Hokusai, 1822

Two Cranes on a Snow-covered Pine Tree

Two Cranes on a Snow-covered Pine Tree

Katsushika Hokusai, 1834

Mount Fuji and Enoshima

Mount Fuji and Enoshima

Katsushika Hokusai, 1615

Mother and Children in Summer Night

Mother and Children in Summer Night

Katsushika Hokusai, 1700

Transmitting the Spirit and Revealing the Form of Things: Hokusai's Sketchbooks, vol. 3

Transmitting the Spirit and Revealing the Form of Things: Hokusai's Sketchbooks, vol. 3

Katsushika Hokusai, 1815

Staff-Waving Dance

Staff-Waving Dance

Katsushika Hokusai, 1790

Fuji from Suidōbashi (Suidōbashi Fuji): Detatched page from One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei) Vol. 3

Fuji from Suidōbashi (Suidōbashi Fuji): Detatched page from One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei) Vol. 3

Katsushika Hokusai, 1835

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Katsushika Hokusai, 1820

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro I 1660–1704

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro I 1660–1704

Katsushika Hokusai, 1760

Travelers Passing by Mt. Fuji/ Yoshiwara, from the series Exhaustive Illustrations of the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi ezukushi)

Travelers Passing by Mt. Fuji/ Yoshiwara, from the series Exhaustive Illustrations of the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi ezukushi)

Katsushika Hokusai, 1810