Hokusai (In Our Time)
1831 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), the Japanese artist whose views of Mt Fuji such as The Great Wave off Kanagawa (pictured) are some of the most iconic in world art. He worked as Japan was slowly moving towards greater contact with the outside world, trading with China and allowing two Dutch ships to dock each year. From these s
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Around 1831
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- First passenger railway opens (1825)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)