Katsushika Hokusai

He was Born in Japan(Oct.1760, Died in May 10, 1849, Edo, Japan).

He was a Japanese artist. He has skills for painter, draftsman, printmaker, and book illustrator. Apprenticed to a woodcut engraver at 15 years old. He became a student of the leading Ukiyo-e master, Katsukawa Shunsho, in 1778. After he learned prints, paintings from kotskawa Shunsho, his thirty -six views of Mount Fuji which created between (1826-1833), a series of prints had marked a summit in the history of the Japanese landscape. I like his grandeur of concept and skill of execution, there was little approaching it before and nothing to surpass it later. He had numerous followers, though none had his power of versatility. He was a special artist because he was drawn by diverse artistic influences, among which they must include Chinese art and western art.