Hokusai

00:00:12 SEINEN PRODUCTIONS

00:00:40 Producer: KOZO IGAWA Scriptwriter: MAKOTO YOSHIKAWA

00:01:12 The shogunate in Edo was beginning to crumble.

00:02:45 When it's the whores who know me

00:03:14 Hey, samurai, if you make trouble

00:03:54 to challenge the samurai.

00:04:13 These were paid for by oppressing the peasantry with heavy taxes.

00:04:50 Hokusai was six years old at the time. KIYONAGA

00:05:07 never tired of drawing the licensed quarters

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

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

00:06:47 Thus Hokusai's unique style was born.

00:07:09 PERSPECTIVE a great influence on modern Western art.

00:12:49 "I've just moved and need someone to lend me some money.

00:13:18 Yet he painted all day until his eyes became blurry.

00:14:11 They vividly protrayed the lives of common folk

00:15:52 and one grandson.

00:16:30 so that I'll leave my grandson alone.

00:16:48 At least, for the moment, I can breathe a sigh of relief."

00:19:05 "Let us show them the Buddhist Pure Land that awaits them after death."

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

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

00:21:44 "Grant me but another five years...

01:08:03 led the Tembo uprising in Osaka."