Hokusai (Katsushika Hokusai) was a Japanese printmaker and painter of the Edo period, best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Working across a career of more than seventy years under dozens of different names, he brought the ukiyo-e tradition of pictures of the floating world to its technical and compositional peak, and his prints later influenced European painters including Van Gogh and Monet.
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Birth DateTraditionally given; Wikipedia's own sourcing hedges it as supposedly 31 October 1760. BirthplaceEdo, Japan (present-day Tokyo) 2 Active From YearApproximate, from his earliest known prints to his death; this entity's own description already records a career of more than seventy years. Active To Year TrainingApprenticed around 1778 to the ukiyo-e master Katsukawa Shunsho. 2 FAQs
Why did Hokusai use so many different names?
Changing names was common for Japanese artists then, but Hokusai used at least thirty, usually when his art and style changed.
Using several names was a common practice among Japanese artists of his time, but Hokusai went much further than most. He was known by at least thirty names during his lifetime, more pseudonyms than any other major Japanese artist. His name changes were so frequent, and so often tied to changes in his artistic production and style, that they are used to divide his life into periods.
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Hokusai produced his ukiyo-e woodblock prints, including The Great Wave off Kanagawa, using the woodcut process.
In Movement
Source Ukiyo-e (New World Encyclopedia)
Influenced
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Practices
Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
Works Created
Source Great Daruma (Wikipedia)
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Additional Source Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Wikipedia)
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1. Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage Learning- chapter on Japanese art, section on ukiyo-e and Hokusai
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Working across a career of more than seventy years under dozens of different names, he brought the ukiyo-e tradition of pictures of the floating world to its technical and compositional peak, and his prints later influenced European painters including Van Gogh and Monet.
2. Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationHokusai article, infobox birth_place field
Edo, Japan; present-day Tokyo, Japan
Hokusai article, infobox death_place field
Edo, Japan
Hokusai article, career section
more than seventy years
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Katsukawa Shunsho
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Hokusai (Wikipedia)
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31 October 1760 - 10 May 1849) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker.
Hokusai article, infobox death_date field
10 May 1849
In Group: Japanese Woodblock Print Masters, Lead
Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎; c. 31 October 1760-10 May 1849) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker.
View the SourceUkiyo-e (New World Encyclopedia)
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Katsushika Hokusai
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Influenced: Vincent van Gogh, Hokusai article, lead section, clause naming Van Gogh
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.
Influenced: Claude Monet, Hokusai article, lead section, clause naming Monet
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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The Great Daruma was a monumental portrait created by Japanese artist Hokusai on 5 October 1817. Also known as the Great Bodhidarma, the work is a depiction of Bodhidharma, known in Japan as Daruma, a revered Buddhist monk of the
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Wikipedia)
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