# Flying Cuckoo, in Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai painted this in about 1809, aged 49. It is now at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1809
- Medium: Ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: H x W (overall): 62.5 x 120.6 cm (24 5/8 x 47 1/2 in)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, F1904.187
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Katsushika Hokusai](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/katsushika-hokusai), Japanese, 1760–1849

Hokusai trained in the studio of the actor-portraitist Katsukawa Shunshō and went on to work under more than thirty names across a career of some seventy years.

20 works in the collection.

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