Katsushika Hokusai ( 葛饰北斎) was a Japanese artist, Painter and printmaker of the Edo period . He was influenced by Winters Such as Sesshu , and other styles of Chinese Painting . Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji ( 富岳三十六景 Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei in 1831) which includes the internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa , created During the 1820s.
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