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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 simply 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 3,512,533 page views. His biography is available in 145 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 142 in 2019). Hokusai is the most popular artist, the 2nd 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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  • 80.12

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  • 145

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ARTISTS

Among artists, Hokusai ranks 1 out of 78After him are Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, M. C. Escher, Yoko Ono, Hans Holbein the Younger, Jusepe de Ribera, Victor Vasarely, Jean Arp, Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, and Hiroshige.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hokusai ranks 2 out of 6,048Before him are Hirohito (1901). After him are Akihito (1933), Akira Kurosawa (1910), Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Oda Nobunaga (1534), Emperor Meiji (1852), Kanō Jigorō (1860), Yukio Mishima (1925), Matsuo Bashō (1644), and Haruki Murakami (1949).

Among ARTISTS In Japan

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