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Name: Katsushika Hokusai
Birth Date: October, 1760
Death Date: May 10, 1849
Place of Birth: Edo, Japan
Place of Death: Edo, Japan
Nationality: Japanese
Gender: Male
Occupations: painter, printmaker

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Biography of Katsushika Hokusai
949 words, approx. 3 pages
The Japanese painter and printmaker Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is considered one of the six great Ukiyo-e masters and the founder of the school of landscape artists that dominated this form during its last phase. While the Japanese wood block of...


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Self portraite as old man. Collection from Louvre. Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎) (1760 — 1849) was an Edo period Japanese artist, painter, woodblock printmaker and ukiyo-e maker. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best-known as author of the...


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Katsushika Hokusai, (葛飾北斎), (1760—1849[1]), was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period . In his time he was Japan's leading expert on Chinese painting.[2] Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best-known as...


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Trash spoiling Japan's sacred Mount Fuji
6/8/2007: 897 words, approx. 3 pages
If you look up from the forests at the foot of Japan's Mount Fuji, the volcano's graceful slopes rise into the distance and peak in a nearly symmetrical, snowcapped cone.If you look down in the forests, however, you see something much less elegant: trash. Lots...


 

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