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Katsushika Hokusai

Tōkaidō Hodogaya, one of 36 views of Fuji san

Katsushika Hokusai (1760 – 1849) was a Japanese painter and printmaker of the Edo period. The Great Wave and Fuji in Clear Weather gave him international fame (36 views of Mont Fuji).


Hokusai Sea Wave Kanagawa.jpg

Behind the Great Wave at Kanagawa (1832) is his most renown work.