Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai

葛飾北斎

春朗

菱川宗理

卍

戴斗

painter

print designer

illustrator

Perhaps the Japanese artist best known to Western audiences, Hokusai was a brilliant draftsman and painter whose active career spanned more than seven decades. An extremely prolific artist, he produced paintings as well as thousands of designs for prints and illustrated books.

Male

Student of: Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726-1792)