Katsushika Hokusai
Also known as Hokusai, Hokusai Katsushika, Taito Katsushika, Hachiemon Miuraya, Taito, Raishin, Manji Rōjin, Tokimasa
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.
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Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist from the Edo period who created woodblock prints and paintings, most famously including "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" from his series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. He significantly expanded ukiyo-e art beyond its traditional focus on courtesans and actors to include landscapes, plants, and animals, and his work later influenced major European artists like Van Gogh and Monet during the 19th-century Japonisme movement.
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- Early life
- Middle period
- Later life
- Selected works
- Influence on art and culture
- Notes
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- General and cited references
- Further reading
- General biography
- Specific works of art
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- Prints
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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.
Hokusai created the monumental Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji as a response to a domestic travel boom in Japan and as part of a personal interest in Mount Fuji. It was this series, specifically, The Great Wave off Kanagawa and Fine Wind, Clear Morning, that secured his fame both in Japan and overseas.