In the last three decades of his life, Hokusai, the renowned 19th century Japanese artist, produced his great works of art. Among them are the prints intended to accompany the One hundred Poets a body of literature that has been in integral part of Japanese art an culture since the mind-13th century. In his life time however Hokusai only completed twenty-seven prints and until recently his designs and drawings for sixty-two other images have been ignored. Reproducing all eighty-nine of the extant images in this remarkable series for the first time HOKUSAI: ON HUNDRED POETS displays the range of the artist's pictorial imagination and powers of inventio.