Emerging from his hermitage once in a blue moon, struck by the random motivation brought unto him from the whispers of the foreign gods in order to educate gamers, it's me! The man (now in crippling debt thanks to Koyanskaya) that has written lore/history posts on Ereshkigal and Elisabeth Bathory! In order to distract myself from my current financial status thanks to the steep cost of hiring NFF Services, I decided to pick up the sword (keyboard) once more and write about one of our current summer event's star: Katsushika Hokusai, the bikini-clad swordsman/artist! For anyone curious but too lazy to look them up, this is for you! EDIT: I just realized I published this at like midnight for the west. For any nightowls with nothing better to do, enjoy this read!
While most FGO Masters here hear the name Hokusai and immediately think of his daughter Εi and her floating sidekick, I'll be writing about the true Hokusai, aka Octodad! We'll start by delving into his historic life before he became the Robin to Εi's Batman. This will be the longest piece yet, and being that it has references to art, I will be posting their name and years they were produced in for people to search so they can see the pieces and appreciate them for themselves.
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Katsushika Hokusai, born on October 31st in the year 1760, is perhaps one of Japan's most well-known artists. He was married twice and had 5 children-- 2 sons and 3 daughters, the youngest one of whom we are already well-acquainted with.
His most iconic pieces include the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (a series of prints of Fuji taken from different locations and weather), the first and perhaps most well known in the series, The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831). *note: (Off as in off-shore, not "of" to indicate possession. Just in case anyone else might be wondering, 'cuz I once had to do a double take of the name.) Along with another work of his, named Fine Wind, Clear Morning and Thunderstorm Beneath the Summit (both made between 1830-32), these works of art are the ones that made him famous both in Japan and overseas near the end of his life.
Hokusai, as he was simply known as, was an ukiyo-e artist, a form of Japanese art that was predominant from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The term "ukiyo-e" itself translates as *"picture of the floating
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