Hokusai Exposed

Is an exhibition that is currently being shown at The Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane. It's only on until 17 November - go check it out, if you can: it's only £5 to get in. Upstairs Hokusai's 36 views of Mount Fuji are on display. When you get to the downstairs area, you are given a little lantern (=a chochin; that itself is super cool!) that guides you through the darkened (no worries, it's not pitch black by any means!) basement. They have three small rooms - one focusing on Ghosts, one on Manga and a pleasure zone. The final room is for over 18s only and has Hokusai's very explicit sex paintings on display. A much bigger collection of 'Shunga' - sex and pleasure in Japanese art is currently available to see in a special exhibition at the British Museum.

I felt they could have done a bit more with the downstairs area. But I still really enjoyed it. And I am thinking that a Hokusai-esk tattoo (the landscape not the sex drawings) could look really amazing on my back.