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  PORTRAIT OF ARTISTIC GENIUS: KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI
Katsushika Hokusai was one of Japan's best-known artists - and quite the eccentric. Renown for using incantations to ward off people as well as his dreadful finances, Hokusai remained active and creative throughout his life. His best works were created in his seventies: landscapes of Mount Fuji, grotesque illustrations of romantic novels and emotion-filled paintings of birds and flowers.
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RECREATING A GENIUS
Artists from a Tokyo art and research institute try to recapture Hokusai's woodblock prints using original production methods.

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THE ELUSIVE SOUTH WIND, CLEAR DAWN
A photographer tries to capture Mt. Fuji in the same light as Hokusai.

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ORIGINAL "ANIMATION"
Hokusai's sketches of the human form create an animation when played in succession.

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