Hokusai

00:00:12 SEINEN PRODUCTIONS

00:00:44 Cinematographers: SUSUMU URASHIMA, HIROMI HASEGAWA JUNICHI SEGAWA

00:01:19 who began leaving the countryside for Edo and challenging samurai rule.

00:02:52 It was like the sky was raining pipes.

00:03:42 "Eating, shitting and fornicating - such is the world

00:04:06 "They hum 'bunbu' (arms and letters), keeping me up all night."

00:04:36 The richly colored nishiki-e prints first appeared

00:05:02 While Buncho, Kiyonaga, Toyoharu, and Utamaro

00:05:25 "The 23rd: rain - painted all day."

00:05:46 The scientific spirit of Kokan, who had studied Western arts and sciences

00:06:52 "Not flying high, though endowed with wings

00:11:21 "All along the road, not a soul to be seen - twilight in autumn."

00:13:01 "I believe a Bodhisattva may save me yet." - Hokusai's third daughter, Oi

00:13:59 His drawings, though loved by the commoners, were hated by the samurai.

00:15:47 but both his wives predeceased him.

00:16:22 He's run up debt, and I've threatened to disown him.

00:16:46 and return to Edo.

00:17:33 Hokusai, alone among artists at the time, drew portraits of artisans at work.

00:19:31 one as bad as another, Hokusai

00:21:22 At 90, one's artistry deepens to the essence of things.

00:21:49 and I could become a true artist."