By TAKASHI NARAZAKI/ Staff Writer
February 4, 2020 at 15:38 JST
Sample pages of the new Japanese passport featuring ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai’s “Gaifu kaisei” (South Wind at Clear Dawn), top, and “Kanagawa-oki nami-ura” (Under the Wave off Kanagawa), bottom, from his iconic series “Fugaku Sanjurokkei” (Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji). (Takashi Narazaki)
To promote Japanese culture and fight forgeries, works of famed ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai of the Edo Period (1603-1867) will grace the new Japanese passport. [Read More]
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