Hokusai Series Print ! Buyō Tsukuda-jima Tsukada-eiland in de provincie Musashi . Katsushika Hokusai was born in 1760 in Edo, today's Sumida district of Tokyo. He is considered Japan's most famous artist. Probably his most famous work is the woodcut "The Big Wave in front of Kanagawa" (1830) from the cycle "36 Views of Mount Fuji" (1829-1833). His works have been assigned to the genre of ukiyo-e. It means "images of the fluid world," a pathetic, interconnected world in its eternal cycle of becoming and dying. Hokusai drew, painted and printed nature and landscape paintings, portraits, everyday scenes and erotic scenes. The term "manga" also goes back to him. This is how he described his sketchbooks with everyday scenes from the Edo period.

Katsushika Hokusai gave herself more than 30 different stage names during his lifetime. Between 1834 and 1849 he signed his works with "Gakyo-rojin", Japanese for "Old man fond of painting".

"By age 100, I will have reached an excellent rank, and at 110, every point, every line will have its own life. I just hope some people live to see the truth of what I'm saying."

Although he didn't get the 110 years of his life, the prolific and grandiose artist left behind more than 30,000 works. The magic of his visually powerful and subtle works is still uninterrupted today