The print was made in 1890 ... of woodblock illustrations toward the end of a life that had begun during the Edo period, when Japan was still a feudal country, and ended in the midst of the ...

French Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Edo-era Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) never met and were alive at the same time for only nine years. But sometimes your ...