Somewhere out there, not here. Here we paint screens. Yes . . . the arrangement of the screens." It's vintage Sondheim caricature - the dreamy and aesthetic Japanese, serenely painting screens ...

Hokusai’s Great Wave is seen as the ultimate emblem of Japanese ... and this time he wanted them made with cheaper paper so that his ideas could be spread wider. Perhaps his early career ...

The Great Wave off the ... It depicts the life of Hokusai and the many challenges he faced during a career that spanned over 70 years. Scriptwriter Len Kawahara says the idea of the film came ...

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Hokusai's 'The Great Wave' (painted about 1830), from Japan In the early nineteenth century ...