The British Museum said Tuesday it will showcase more than 100 sketches by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai in an exhibition from September, bringing to the public the forgotten 19th century works that had resurfaced in 2019.The exhibit through January next year will show 103 postcard-sized sketches drawn by Hokusai (1760-1849) to create woodblock prints for an unpublished visual encyclopedia titled "The Great Picture Book of Everything."Sketches created in the first half of the 19th century include dramatized scenes from ancient China and Buddhism in India, as well as studies of …READ FULL ARTICLE
