Timeline Friday 31 October 1760

Events on Friday 31 October 1760 2

• 1760 – 1849 Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker Katsushika Hokusai was an Edo-period artist who worked in painting, book illustration and woodblock prints. His landscape series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes The Great Wave off Kanagawa, made him one of the best-known Japanese artists in the world.
• 1760 Katsushika Hokusai is born in Edo Born in the Katsushika district of Edo, present-day Tokyo Hokusai was born in Edo, the shogun's capital. He later took his family name, Katsushika, from the district where he was born.