Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese artist and printmaker (died 1849)

Hokusai

Japanese artist (1760–1849)

Katsushika Hokusai , known mononymously as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hokusai was instrumental in…