
Virtual Memorial
Katsushika Hokusai
A Memory Realm virtual memorial place honoring Katsushika Hokusai, remembered for Ukiyo-e, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Edo art.

Why Katsushika Hokusai Is Remembered
Katsushika Hokusai is remembered for ukiyo-e, the great wave off kanagawa, edo art. This public page gives visitors a concise starting point for understanding why this figure remains part of cultural, civic, scientific, or literary memory.
The page is designed as an accessible introduction rather than an exhaustive account, with source links and image credits kept visible for further reading.
A Virtual Memorial in Memory Realm
This Memory Realm memorial hall turns a map reference into a virtual place for discovery. Visitors can move from the public page to the map and then into a 3D memorial hall connected to Katsushika Hokusai.
The place is part of Memory Realm's virtual layer. It is not a physical marker and does not claim rights, control, access, endorsement, or affiliation connected to a real-world site.
Place Context
Tokyo, Japan is used as a broad spatial reference for this memorial hall because it is connected to Katsushika Hokusai's story, memory, or public legacy. The location is intentionally city-level or region-level so the page can provide orientation without implying a claim over a specific property or institution.
Historical Context
Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hokusai was instrumental in developing ukiyo-e from a style of portraiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals. His works had a significant influence on Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet during the wave of Japonisme that spread across Europe in the late 19th century.
Memory Realm presents this context for educational discovery and remembrance, with public source links and media attribution preserved alongside the page content.
Photos

Self portrait as an old man. Original in Louvre.
Katsushika Hokusai, File:Hokusai_portrait.png, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Hokusai described him as "Shaggy white-haired with small eyes and large nose".
Katsushika Hokusai, 北斎娘・応為栄女集 久保田一洋 編著 藝華書院, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Identificatie Titel(s): Portret van vrouw met een juk Objecttype: surimono Objectnummer: RP-P-1956-567 Catalogusreferentie: Forrer 104. Jap Cat III 89 Opschriften / Merken: verzame
Rijksmuseum, http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.collect.45761, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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