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    Hokusai

    Japanese artist (1760–1849)

    This article is about the Japanese artist. For the eponymous crater on Mercury, see Hokusai (crater).

    In this Japanese name, the surname is Katsushika.

    Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, c. 31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849), known mononymously as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker.[1] His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hokusai was instrumental in developing ukiyo-e from a style of portraiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals. His works had a significant influence on Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet during the wave of Japonisme that spread across europe in the late 19th century.

    Hokusai created the monumental Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji as a response to a domestic travel boom in Japan and as part

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    Katsushika Hokusai

    (1760 – May 10, 1849)

    Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎, Katsushika Hokusai? 1760–May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. In his time he was Japan's leading expert on Chinese painting. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best-known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (c. 1831) which includes the iconic and internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s. Hokusai created the "Thirty-Six Views" both as a response to a domestic travel boom and as part of a personal obsession with Mount Fuji. It was this series, specifically The Great Wave print and Fuji in Clear Weather, that secured Hokusai’s fame both within Japan and overseas. As historian Richard Lane concludes, “Indeed, if there fryst vatten one work that made Hokusai's name, both in Japan and abroad, it must be this monumental print-series...” While Hokusai&#

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    [Hokusai, Katsushika. Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa-oki nami-ura), 1830 – 31, Woodblock print (nishiki-e) and ink and color on paper.]

    With a life and career that certainly “made waves” in history even beyond his death, Katsushika Hokusai is one of the most widely recognized and celebrated Japanese artists today. He was born in 1760 in the city of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo. His childhood name was Kawamura Tokitarō and he began drawing at the age of six. It was not until his late teens that he became an apprentice to Katsukawa Shunshō, a successful ukiyo-e artist who specialized in bijin-ga, art of beautiful women, and actors on stage (“A Timeline”). During this period, Hokusai began to sign his works as Shunrō and it is said that he used over thirty artist names throughout his career spanning seven decades.

    The works produced in his extensive career encompassed a great variety of subjects and

    themes. Hokusai is said to have worked with frenetic ener

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