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 Hokusai
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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
Source Wikipedia: Wikipedia
Source Wikipedia: Wikipedia
Practices
Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
Works Created
Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Japan, originated there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Japan, nationality there.
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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_date field
supposedly 31 October 1760
Hokusai article, infobox death_date field
10 May 1849
Hokusai 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
Hokusai article, early life section
Katsukawa Shunsho
Hokusai article, infobox birth_name field
Tokitaro
- Works Created: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
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Ukiyo-e (New World Encyclopedia)
New World EncyclopediaIn Movement: Ukiyo-e, Key artists sectionQuote, In Movement: Ukiyo-e, Key artists section
Katsushika Hokusai
Wikipedia: Wikipedia
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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