Katsushika Hokusai (1760—May 10, 1849) was an Edo period Japanese artist, painter, wood engraver and ukiyo-e maker, born in Edo (now Tokyo) and author of the 13-volume sketchbook Hokusai manga (begun in 1814) as well as the block prints Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, (created around 1823-1829), which includes "Behind the Great Wave at Kanagawa."

He is still considered one of the outstanding figures of the ukiyo-e, or "pictures of the floating world".

His art was an important source of inspiration for many European impressionists like Claude Monet and American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Both Hokusai and Hiroshige have had an enormous impact on landscape painting worldwide. Ultimately, Hokusai's name is indelibly linked to Whistler's. Not only was Whistler greatly influenced by Hokusai's painting style, but the two artist's works are important in the permanent collection of Asian and American paintings at the Charles Lang Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, in Washington, DC, where they represent one of the earliest and most important compositions of Eastern (Hokusai et al.) and Western (Whistler et al.) aesthetics.

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