TOKAIDO RYOKO Tokaido Tour added to the museum collection.
| 1976 | Valuable items related to Hokusai and ukiyo-e prints donated to the town of Obuse by ukiyo-e appraiser Kaneko Fusui (October). |
| The Hokusai Museum opens (November 6). |
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| Special Exhibit of Katsushika Hokusai's Brush Paintings held in commemoration of the museum opening (November 7 - 30). | |
| NANA KOMACHI Seven Figures of Ono-no-Komachi and BIJIN TACHISUGATA Standing Beauty added to the museum collection. | |
| 1977 | Gakyojin Hokusai Exhibit sponsored by The Kyoto Shimbun, Inc., town of Obuse, and others at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (May 21 - June 15). |
| The Hokusai Museum Foundation established. Inauguration of Ichimura Ikuo, head of Obuse, as director (June 28). | |
| Brush Paintings of Katsushika Hokusai sponsored by Sankei Shimbun, Co. at Mitsukoshi Department Store in Ikebukuro, Tokyo (November 1 - 13). | |
| 1978 | Nagano Dentetsu operates a new bus route: Kanbayashi Onsen - Obuse, Hokusai Museum - Sanada Homotsu-kan - Kawanakajima Kosenjo - Nagano Station (April 29). TOKAIDO RYOKO Tokaido Tour added to the museum collection. |
| 1979 | Ceiling paintings of the festival floats examined by Professor Narazaki Muneshige (September 3). |
| Higashi-machi and Kan-machi Festival floats designated as official treasures of Nagano Prefecture (December 17). | |
| Death of Hokusai Museum Director and Head of Obuse Ichimura Ikuo (December 30). | |
| 1980 | Nagai Yoshio inaugurated as second director of the museum (January 7). |
| Town funeral for the late Ichimura Ikuo, Head of Obuse / Hokusai Museum's First Director (January 16). | |
| RYUKA KASAMOCHI BIJIN Beauty with Umbrella beneath a Willow Tree, HASSAKU DAYU Courtesan Dressed in White Kimono and others added to the museum collection. |