The discovery shed invaluable new light on the great artist’s career. In the late 1820s, when many of the drawings were created, Hokusai was believed to have been going through a “fallow” period: “he ...

Chiura Obata, “A Snow Storm Nearing Yosemite Park Government Center, February 1939” (all image courtesy the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara unless otherwise noted) SANTA BARBARA ...