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Hokusai

1760 - 1849

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Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎; c. 31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849), known mononymously as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hokusai was instrumental in developing ukiyo-e from a style of portraiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hokusai is the most popular artist, the 3rd most popular biography from Japan and the most popular Japanese Artist.

Hokusai is most famous for his series of prints called Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.

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Among artists, Hokusai ranks 1 out of 125. After him are Andy Warhol, Marina Abramović, Marcel Duchamp, M. C. Escher, Yoko Ono, Jusepe de Ribera, Hans Holbein the Younger, Jean Arp, Victor Vasarely, Hiroshige, and Joseph Beuys.

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Among people born in 1760, Hokusai ranks 1. After him are Pope Leo XII, Henri de Saint-Simon, Luigi Cherubini, Jiaqing Emperor, François-Noël Babeuf, Akbar II, Camille Desmoulins, Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, Alexandre de Beauharnais, Johan Gadolin, and Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. Among people deceased in 1849, Hokusai ranks 4. Before him are Frédéric Chopin, Edgar Allan Poe, and James K. Polk. After him are Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Johann Strauss I, Anne Brontë, William II of the Netherlands, Sándor Petőfi, France Prešeren, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, and Charles Albert of Sardinia.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hokusai ranks 3 out of 6,245. Before him are Hirohito (1901), and Matsuo Bashō (1644). After him are Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Akihito (1933), Oda Nobunaga (1534), Akira Kurosawa (1910), Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), Emperor Meiji (1852), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Naruhito (1960), and Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536).

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Among ARTISTS In Japan

Among artists born in Japan, Hokusai ranks 1. After him are Yoko Ono (1933), Hiroshige (1797), Akira Yoshizawa (1911), Yoshitaka Amano (1952), Hasui Kawase (1883), Yoshitomo Nara (1959), and Tatsuki Fujimoto (1993).

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