Hokusai-kan 北斎館
At 83 Hokusai himself painted ‘waves’ and ‘dragon and phoenix’ on two festival floats.
Museum devoted to Katsushika Hokusai, who first came to Obuse in 1842, at the age of 83, perhaps to escape the restrictions of the Tenpō reform in Edo, perhaps at the invitation of the local patron Takai Kōzan, with whom he spent the last years of his life working. On later journeys he painted the two float ceilings, dated 1845 (Kamimachi) and 1844 (Higashimachi). The museum opened in 1976 and in 2026 marks fifty years since its opening.
Nagano
Obuse
