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Hokusai
Also Known As Tokitaro
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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 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage Learningchapter on Japanese art, section on ukiyo-e and Hokusai
2. Wikipedia
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supposedly 31 October 1760
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10 May 1849
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Edo, Japan; present-day Tokyo, Japan
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Edo, Japan
2. Wikipedia
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more than seventy years
2. Wikipedia
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Katsukawa Shunsho
2. Wikipedia
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Tokitaro
Ukiyo-e (New World Encyclopedia)
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Katsushika Hokusai
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