Life story
Katsushika Hokusai was born on the thirty-first of October, 1760, in Japan. He would become a celebrated ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active across the long years of his life as both a painter and a printmaker.
His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa, an image known the world over.
He was instrumental in developing ukiyo-e from a style of portraiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader art that turned toward landscapes, plants, and animals. In doing so he widened what his art could hold.
He died on the tenth of May, 1849, in Asakusa. 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 nineteenth century, and his vision endures far beyond his own time.
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Constellation of Life
Important milestones that shaped their journey.