【Obuse Hokusai Museum】Miran Fukuda's Latest Works: Hokusai Art Collection Unveiled! Special Exhibition "Hokusai vs Miran Fukuda: A Message to Obuse" to be held from April 11 (Sat) to June 7 (Sun)
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Hokusai Museum, a special exhibition titled "Hokusai vs Miran Fukuda: A Message to Obuse" will be held from April 11 to June 7, 2026. Contemporary artist Miran Fukuda challenges Katsushika Hokusai's works, with approximately 15 new Hokusai art pieces being unveiled for the first time, reinterpreting Hokusai's masterpieces from a contemporary perspective.
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Highly Anticipated Contemporary Artist Miran Fukuda Challenges Hokusai!
A special exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Hokusai Museum, located in Obuse, where Katsushika Hokusai visited in his later years and left behind masterpieces. This exhibition will unveil a collection of new Hokusai art pieces created by contemporary artist Miran Fukuda, born from her unique interpretation and expression, using motifs such as Hokusai's representative work "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" series, his late masterpieces drawn in Obuse Town, "Uwamachi Festival Float Ceiling Painting: Male Wave, Female Wave," and the Phoenix painting on the ceiling of Gansho-in Temple. You can enjoy these art pieces as a message to contemporary people, born from the collaboration between Miran Fukuda and Hokusai. (Including Hokusai Museum collection and approximately 15 new works, all exhibited for the first time.)
Hokusai Museum 50th Anniversary Special Exhibition
Hokusai vs Miran Fukuda: A Message to Obuse
【Period】April 11 (Sat) - June 7 (Sun), 2026
【Opening Hours】9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Last admission 30 minutes before closing)
【Venue】Hokusai Museum (485 Obuse, Obuse-machi, Kamitakai-gun, Nagano)
【Admission Fee】General 1500 yen, High school/University students 700 yen, Elementary/Junior high school students 500 yen
【Closed】Open daily during the exhibition period
Featured New Work
Miran Fukuda "Dotou-zu (Raging Waves)"
From the two swirling patterns depicted on the paulownia wood ceiling panels of the Obuse Uwamachi festival floats, which are "recently popularly called 'Male Wave' and 'Female Wave,' and both are referred to as 'Dotou-zu' (Raging Waves)" (Note 1), I associated the meaning of "Dotou" with something intense and powerful, or an aggressive attack. Also, from the statement that "Hokusai's obsession to approach the origin of life residing in the waves can be felt in the swirling patterns of 'Dotou-zu' that dive deep into the seabed" (Note 2), I combined the two patterns to create an image where the spray of the male wave submerges into the female wave, giving concrete form to Hokusai's obsession with the origin of life. The fact that "it is unclear in which direction the wave patterns were originally arranged during production..." (Note 3) allowed me the freedom to reconstruct the waves, quoting Hokusai's waves directly without alteration. It is thought that the popular name for the waves in recent years came from the form implicitly suggested within the original imagery. (Comment: Miran Fukuda)
(Notes 1.2.3.) Toshinobu Yasumura, "Katsushika Hokusai's Dotou-zu (Raging Waves), Dragon and Phoenix Ceiling Paintings" ("Kokka" No. 1506, Reiwa 3)