<Previous Clue
>Next Clue
Born October or November 1760.
As young teenager, became a woodcutter, engraving designs of local painters.
The artist never lived more than one or two months in the same place.
Best know for several series of landscape prints.
Here is a portrait of the artist.
Adopted names - Katasushka Shunsho, Sori, I-itsu, gakyrōjin Manji.
Artwork: “Under a Great Wave off Kanagawa”.
The artist's first name is Katsushika.
Katsushika Hokusai.