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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. He is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hokusai has received more than 3,734,616 page views. His biography is available in 149 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 145 in 2019). Hokusai is the most popular artist, the 3rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 2nd in 2019) 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

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

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, Hokusai ranks 1. After him are Pope Leo XII, Henri de Saint-Simon, Luigi Cherubini, Camille Desmoulins, Jiaqing Emperor, Alexandre de Beauharnais, François-Noël Babeuf, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Johan Gadolin, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, and Jan Ladislav Dussek. 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, France Prešeren, Sándor Petőfi, 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 Hayao Miyazaki (1941). After him are Akihito (1933), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Akira Kurosawa (1910), Emperor Meiji (1852), Oda Nobunaga (1534), Matsuo Bashō (1644), Haruki Murakami (1949), Yukio Mishima (1925), and Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542).

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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), Hasui Kawase (1883), Yoshitaka Amano (1952), Yoshitomo Nara (1959), and Tatsuki Fujimoto (1993).

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