Hokusai - A Life in Drawing Nature and Outdoors and Yoshitoshi's elegant Yayoi from

and Yoshitoshi's elegant Yayoi from the series Flowers of the Twelve Months

" opening October 10th at Ginza Sony Park

For many years

And the notion of paradox: the possibility of elevation being located in the very weight of things

Colour scans sit alongside scuzzy photocopies amassed over several years with the assistance of multiple archivists

Hokusai - A Life in Drawing Nature and Outdoors and Yoshitoshi's elegant Yayoi fromHokusai A Life in Drawing Hokusai: the blue, foam crested wave rearing above Mount Fuji; the celebrated volcano idealized and reinventedby the artist in every nuance of view, season and painting; extraordinary bridges, the waterfalls of Japan, the contortions, costumes, gestures the very breath of men, women, peasants, townsmen, warriors, artisans, leaping horses, birds, insects, fish, almost live on the ground on which they are painted the countless