Hokusai

(Japanese, 1760–1849)

Hokusai was a seminal Japanese artist known for his ukiyo-e paintings and prints. Hokusai’s most iconic works include The Great Wave off Kanagawa (c. 1828­–1833) and his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (c. 1830­–1832). “All I have produced before the age of 70 is not worth taking into account. At 73 I have learned a little about the real structure of nature, of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes and insects,” he once said. Born Katsushika Hokusai on October 30, 1760 in Edo (present-day Tokyo), Japan, he began painting at a young age, and apprenticed to a woodcarver as a teenager. At the age of 18, he was accepted into the studio of Katsukawa Shunsho, whose paintings focused on depicting the merchant class. With the death of Shunsho in 1793, Hokusai’s work began to take on the characteristic style for which he is now known. Over the following decades, he illustrated novels and produced his famous Hokusai Manga (1814), a copybook for beginners. The artist died at the age of 88, on May 10, 1849 in Tokyo, Japan. His paintings and woodblock prints, as well as those by other Japanese artists, had a profound impact on the development of the 19th-century European painters Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh. Today, Hokusai’s works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the Sumida Hokusai Museum in Tokyo, among others.

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Work of the Week: Katsushika Hokusai’s 'Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji'

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Fuji from Hodogaya on the Tokaido

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Fuji from Hodogaya on the Tokaido

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The hanging cloud bridge at Mt. Gyodo, Ashikaga

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The hanging cloud bridge at Mt. Gyodo, Ashikaga

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The poet Minamoto no Toru and two companions in...

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The poet Minamoto no Toru and two companions in...

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The coast of Noboto

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The coast of Noboto

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Chinese poet on horseback and attendant watching

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Chinese poet on horseback and attendant watching

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The poet Sei Shonagon alluding to her poem on a...

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The poet Sei Shonagon alluding to her poem on a...

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Carrying rushes

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Carrying rushes

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Poet Abe no Nakamaro on balcony with guests and...

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Poet Abe no Nakamaro on balcony with guests and...

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A youth setting out from home

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A youth setting out from home

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Evening view of farmers working, poem by...

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Evening view of farmers working, poem by...

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Falcon on stand with cherry blossoms

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Falcon on stand with cherry blossoms

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South wind, clear weather, 1830

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South wind, clear weather, 1830

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Roben waterfall, Oyama, Soshu province

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Roben waterfall, Oyama, Soshu province

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Yoshitsune horse-washing waterfall at Yoshino

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Yoshitsune horse-washing waterfall at Yoshino

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The poet Harumichi no Tsuraki viewing a mountain

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The poet Harumichi no Tsuraki viewing a mountain

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Po Ju I meeting the Japanese god of poetry

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Po Ju I meeting the Japanese god of poetry

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Hakoya no yama, 1821

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Hakoya no yama, 1821

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The suspension bridge between Hida and Etchu

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The suspension bridge between Hida and Etchu

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Poet Li Po gazing at a waterfall

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Poet Li Po gazing at a waterfall

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Family fulling cloth, illustration of poem by...

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Family fulling cloth, illustration of poem by...

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Drum bridge at Kameido Tenjin shrine

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Drum bridge at Kameido Tenjin shrine

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The Yahagi Bridge at Okazaki on the Tokaido

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The Yahagi Bridge at Okazaki on the Tokaido

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Horse trough (still life) with poems

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Horse trough (still life) with poems

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Rainstorm beneath the summit

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Rainstorm beneath the summit

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