Katsushika Hokusai
Acclaimed artist Katsushika Hokusai created some of the most famous Japanese artwork of all time, most notably his oceanic series entitled “The Great Wave.” Hokusai took up serious commercial art late in life, creating a manga while in his 50s and trying his hand at wood carving at around the same time. It was still decades later, when Hokusai was in his 70s, that he first tried painting.