Life & Arts

How Hokusai shaped western art

As Japan opened up to western trade, European artists encountered the work of Hokusai. FT arts editor Jan Dalley visits the British Museum's exhibition and considers Hokusai's influence on western art

Produced by Griselda Murray Brown. Filmed and edited by Richard Topping. Picture research by Roz Speirs and Hilary Kirby. Pictures from Getty, Alamy, The Trustees of the British Museum, Musée national des arts asiatiques Guimet, Paris, Ōta Memorial Museum of Art, Tokyo and The Japan Foundation's “Manga Hokusai Manga” exhibition.