Katsushika Hokusai

Portrait of 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:

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

Fishing by Torchlight in Kai Province

Portrait of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

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

Katsushika Ōi

Daughter of a master brings a new perspective to Edo Japan

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

An underdog artist pits monsters vs. superheroes

A global titan of neoclassical sculpture

Art is life, science is death

William Blake Katsushika Hokusai

Marguerite Gérard

Anne Genevieve Greuze

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