biography
| name: |
Hokusai, Katsushika
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pronunciation:
[hokusiy]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1760–1849)
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| biography:
| Artist and wood engraver, born in Edo (modern Tokyo), Japan. He early abandoned traditional styles of engraving for the coloured woodcut designs of the ukiyo-e school. His 10 volumes of the Mangwa (1814–19, Sketches at Random) depict most facets of Japanese life. He is best known for his ‘Hundred Views of Mount Fuji’ (1835), many of which are widely known through reproductions in Western homes today. His work greatly influenced the French Impressionists. |
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