Katsushika Hokusai
c. 1760 CE–c. 1849 CE · Artist · Honjo, Edo
Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese ukiyo-e painter and woodblock print designer active in Edo (modern Tokyo). Adopted as a child by the Nakajima family, he trained from about age eighteen under the print master Katsukawa Shunshō. Over a long career he worked across genres — actor prints, book illustration, surimono, sketch manuals, and landscape — and adopted numerous art names. His print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes The Great Wave off Kanagawa, and the illustrated Hokusai Manga are among his best-known works. In his final years he made repeated stays at Obuse in Shinano Province. He died in Edo in 1849, aged about ninety.
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