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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. [1] His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa .
The inscription to the left of the box bears the artist's signature: 北斎改爲一筆 Hokusai aratame Iitsu hitsu which reads as "(painting) from the brush of Hokusai, who changed his name to Iitsu". [32] Due to his humble origins, Hokusai had no surname; his first nickname Katsushika was derived from the region he came from.
Shortly before his death, Hokusai wrote a haiku: "Though as a ghost, I shall lightly tread the summer fields". Sumpter wrote that "this vibrant depiction of death gone a-hunting speaks to Hokusai’s belief in the supernatural". [5] Tsuji Nobuo states that "Hokusai must have believed in ghosts to have created such realistic images of them". [5]
As the historian Henry Smith [4] explains, "Thus from an early time, Mt. Fuji was seen as the source of the secret of immortality, a tradition that was at the heart of Hokusai's own obsession with the mountain." [5] Each image was made through a process whereby Hokusai's drawing on paper was glued to a woodblock to guide the carving.
They both admired Degas and Hokusai, and shared an interest in childhood and death themes. [46] When Claudel ended the relationship, Debussy wrote: "I weep for the disappearance of the Dream of this Dream." Debussy admired her as a great artist and kept a copy of The Waltz in his studio until his death. By thirty, Claudel's romantic life had ended.
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She was a daughter of the ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760—1849). [5] [6] Hokusai was married twice; the first marriage [a] produced a son and two daughters, and the second, to a woman named Kotome (ことめ), resulted in a son and one or two daughters. [7] Ōi studied her craft under her father's guidance as his apprentice.
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