Kids’ Books*The Met Store What the Artist Saw: Hokusai

In What the Artist Saw: Hokusai, meet groundbreaking Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849). Step into his life and learn what led him to create more than 30,000 works of art, including his famous woodcut views of Mount Fuji. Discover how he planned to live to the age of 110 and even produced the first ever examples of manga! Have a go at making your own printed artworks, too.

In this charming illustrated book to keep and collect, created in full collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can see what the artist saw, and be inspired to create your own artworks, too.