Hokusai | Japanese artist | Britannica

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Hokusai was born in the Honjo quarter just east of Edo (Tokyo) and became interest…Hokusai is said to have served in his youth as clerk in a lending bookshop, and f…The earliest contemporary record of Hokusai dates from the year 1778, when, at th…To judge from the ages of his several children, Hokusai must have marri… See more

Hokusai - Wikipedia

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Katsushika Hokusai Paintings, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory

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Hokusai is widely recognized as one of Japan's greatest artists, having modernized traditional print styles through his innovations in subject and …

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Katsushika Hokusai

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Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist and ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Translated as ‘pictures of the floating world’, ukiyo-e artists made woodblock prints depicting...

Katsushika Hokusai - The Life and Works of This Famous …

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K atsushika Hokusai is often credited as the most famous Japanese artist in the world. His prints were sought after throughout his life until this very day. Without …

Katsushika Hokusai | The Art Institute of Chicago

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Katsushika Hokusai’s woodblock print The Great Wave is one of the most famous and recognizable works of art in the world. This work is from Hokusai’s much-celebrated …

Hokusai and the wave that swept the world - BBC …

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American and French audiences adore Hokusai – and have for centuries. He is, after all, not only one of the great figures of Japanese art, but a father figure of much of Western modernism....

10 Artworks By Katsushika Hokusai You Should Know

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In addition to his other works, Hokusai has become famous for his erotic imagery, called shunga in Japanese. Perhaps his most famous print of this kind, Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife is an example of …

Hokusai - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework Help

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Hokusai. (1760–1849). With his famous print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Japanese master artist and printmaker Hokusai marked the peak in the history of the Japanese landscape print. He produced about …

Katsushika Hokusai - Famous People in the World

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Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese painter and printmaker, best known for the paintings ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ and ‘Fine Wind, Clear Morning,’ part of his painting series ‘Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.’ …