Huge signboard of Hokusai exhibition stands in Paris

Huge signboard of Hokusai exhibition stands in Paris

PARIS, France - A huge signboard stands in front of the Grand Palais museum in Paris on Sept. 25, 2014, to promote an exhibition featuring famed Japanese "ukiyo-e" artist Katsushika Hokusai. The exhibition, opening on Oct. 1, will display more than 700 works by the Japanese artist of the Edo period (1603-1867) under the Tokugawa shogunate.

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