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Map: GSI Japan Obuse preserves an unusual concentration of Katsushika Hokusai's late work: paintings made for local festival floats, a substantial museum collection, and the monumental phoenix on the ceiling of Ganshō-in. These works cannot be understood as the isolated visit of a famous Edo artist. They grew from Hokusai's sustained relationship with Takai Kōzan, a local merchant, painter, pupil, and patron whose house connected Obuse to wider intellectual and artistic networks.

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