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Katsushika 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 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.

Kitagawa Utamaro
thumb|Ase o fuku onna (Woman Wiping Sweat), Ukiyo-e, 1798
thumb|Takashima Ohisa using two mirrors to observe her coiffure
was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.

Suzuki Harunobu
Japanese printmaker
Yanagawa Shigenobu
Japanese artist