Nishikizuri onna sanjūrokkasen|Courtiers and Urchins, frontispiece for the album Brocade Prints of the Thirty-six Poetesses

Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei, c. 1831) which includes the internationally iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa.