Hokusai T-shirts from Uniqlo

Now who is Hokusai? He's famous for this iconic art work.




"The Great Wave off Kanagawa" print

In his time, Hokusai was Japan's leading expert on painting. Hokusai is best-known as author of the woodblock print series “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji “(c. 1831)which includes the iconic and internationally recognised print, “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”, created during the 1820s. Hokusai Manga became the catalyst for ‘Japonism’ when it was introduced to the west and became a source of inspiration for leading European Impressionists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet.

Uniqlo, a japanese clothing retailer, has come up with t-shirts with his artwork.

One example is the tengu (forest goblin holding a samurai sword) on the front and a monkey on the back of the t shirt.



http://ut.uniqlo.com/hokusai is the Japanese language website which displays some of the t shirt prints. On the bottom of the web page, there's an icon which is actually a link to Unsodo.


http://www.hanga.co.jp/ Unsodo makes wood prints and they available for sales wood prints like Hokusai's "Great Wave."



http://www.uniqlo.co.uk/catalogue/men/ut-t-shirt/234294-black-katsushika-hokusai-t-shirt

It's too bad it's available in xs if you want to buy it online.







I found this picture which someone apparently bought of a print of a dragon. Here's his website:
http://textfiend.net/zerohero/?p=1015

He's in Singapore and apparently there's another guy in Singapore who's named Alvin and he has an intersting blog, Alvinology which has pictures he took of how the store looks like.

http://alvinology.wordpress.com/category/events/page/3/