Hokusai is easily the most globally recognizable and well-known Japanese artists and meany consider him to be Japan's greatest ever artist. Hokusai changed the trajectory of the Japanese art of Ukiyo-e, moving from strictly human subjects to European influenced landscape portraits. These portraits were more than simple landscapes however, Hokusai believed in the divinity of nature and many of his prints, including the Great Wave Off Kanagawa, portray nature's power over man and show a deep reverence for the divine beings which Hokusai believed inhabit nature. This video is meant to educate, but primarily as a guide to appreciate on a deeper level one of the most important artists ever to ...