Katsushika Hokusai (1760 –1849) is a Japanese artist, the master painter, illustrator and printmaker of the Japanese Ukiyo-e school of the late Edo period.
Hokusai is the only Japanese that appeared on the LIFE magazine list of the "Top 100 People” who had a major impact on the Second Millennium.
Mitsuru Uragami, the worldly renowned collector of Hokusai Manga, curates this series with images of the best quality digitized only from its first edition.