Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist born in 1760. Hokusai contributed to the Edo Period movement and died in 1849. Get notified when Katsushika Hokusai's biography is complete:

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Ghosts, madness, and the blood-soaked end of feudalism

1839-1892

Katsushika Ōi

Daughter of a master brings a new perspective to Edo Japan

1800-1866

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

An underdog artist pits monsters vs. superheroes

1797-1861

1701 1900

A global titan of neoclassical sculpture

Antonio Canova

Art is life, science is death

William Blake Katsushika Hokusai

Anne Genevieve Greuze

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Katsushika Hokusai

Courtesan Asleep

Amida Waterfall on the Kisokaido Road

Fuji from Goten-yama, at Shinagawa on the Tôkaidô

Small Red Blossoms on a Vine

Viewing Sunset over Ryôgoku Bridge from the Onmaya Embankment

Kohada Koheiji

Ushibori in Hitachi Province

Fujimigahara in Owari Province

The Falling Mist Waterfall at Mount Kurokami