Urban Art Association

I always liked this version. It was on a T-Shirt from Teefury. 

Found this one: Mau Mau

Personnal work, canvas 80 x 80 acrylic and oil

Oh this question, happy you asked this. Other than urban art, I collect Japanese woodblock prints. There's a huge market online, and a lot of the works are gorgeous and reasonable.

I'd first consider contemporary Japanese prints that have a similar feel of Hokusai's work (he was ahead of his time) but are less expensive, see artists like Tokuriki Tomikichiro, and Teruhide Kato.

If you're set on a later edition Hokusai or a contemporary, the great thing with Ukioy-e work is that it's a lot like an antique form of street art, so even with Hokusai prints there are "later editions" or reprints in the 1920's that are special - which is what Samo is talking about above.

To find a good copy of a Hokusai or other later prints, you need to know the basics of how to read a woodblock print education.asianart.org/resources/how-to-read-a-woodblock-print/ by the (1) sensor stamp; (2) artist signature; and (3) quality of the print.

- (1) Sensor stamp dates earlier work, different sensor stamps over time to approve the work to be printed in Japan: mercury.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/prints/nanushi.html

-(2) artist signature changed over time, a helpful guide can be found here www.ukiyo-e.se/signatur.html

- (3) You can easily tell later edition prints from modern repros just by looking at the paper, many should be old any yellow, moonlitseaprints.com/japanese-woodblock-print-real/


Best comprehensive sites I use as a reference for price, to date work, and find work by artist/subject (like landscape (to see waterscapes)
- In the UK- Japanese Gallery: japanesegallery.com/
- Ronin Gallery: www.roningallery.com/collections

Other helpful sites:
- Lavenberg Collection: www.myjapanesehanga.com/
- www.viewingjapaneseprints.net/index.html

Notes on finding authentic prints on ebay:
- I don't buy anything out of Japan because there's a large market for them there, and most of the authentic works will be in Japanese characters, the listings in English charters are usually trying to rip-off people who don't know better.

Hope this helps! Go forth and collect

Wow, must say I am learning here!

And your picture is where?

I think it’s just amazing how it has been re-interpreted in so many ways, both is staying true to the image or putting the new artist’s twist on it.
I never really realised how minimalistic the image can be made while still being recognisable.

Art Monster, here's one your must have seen!? I purchased this from society 6, pretty basic poster quality... But makes me smile when I look at it. 

My favourite so far!

Since you asked...



This was done in Tokyo by Nami, at Tokyo 3 tides tatoo.

One more I forgot about, which I can't believe I didn't think of it, it's hanging in my hallway. Cheap print in a cheap ikea frame, but I love the message. I added some caution tape on the spacers. Work by John Larigakis.

The one above reminds me of this epic piece that was at Dismaland due to the waste in the wave

Very nice
I think the black and white interpretations come out really nice actually
To the point where I prefer them