That's anonymity and Transience at work.
His works make time and Transience visible.
It indicates the Transience of life, its continuous connection with death.
For me, this was an early awakening to the Transience of this world.
Mother calm the Transience of the mind and gives speed to the person.
Take it day by day and keep in mind the Transience of any bad situation.
Smoking represented pleasure, Transience and the briefness of earthly life as it,
quite literally, went up in smoke.
So if you want to feel the Transience of time and enjoy the traditional Japanese engraving,
go to Koisikawa Ukiyo-e Museum.
Conversations of men acquire a somewhat doomed and philosophical shade,
and life presents itself with its Transience, as well as a real quite final stop.
Actually, behind the term ukiyo-e lies the insight into the Transience of all earthly things,
but a look at the picture before us makes it clear that the meaning of this expression had already changed in the lifetime of Katsushika Hokusai.
But the nature of the moment- its Transience, its interconnectedness with moments before and to come,
its simultaneous emptying out and filling up- and the awareness of it and its contents, is never awful itself, and is in fact always unsullied and beautiful.