Tour japonaise hokusai biography

 “If heaven would only give me five more years of life I could become a truly great painter.”
(Hokusai’s final words before his death in 1849)

        Hokusai was born in 1760, sometime in October or November.

He was born in the Honjo neighbourhood in Edo (present-day Tokyo), close to the Sumida River and to the countryside. At the age of four, he was adopted by Nakajima Ise, a mirror designer for the Tokugawa royal family. Between 1774 and 1775, he became a woodcutter, engraving the designs of local painters.

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Only three years later, though, he put an end to this activity in order to become an artist himself, refusing to be a simple interpreter or translator of others’ talent.

        In order to pursue his career, at the age of eighteen he entered the studio of Katsukawa Shunshō, where he adopted the name Katsukawa Shunrō.

In 1789, the young painter, at twenty-nine years old, was forced to leave Katsukawa’s studio u