Ukiyo-e artist Hokusai is known to have used over thirty different art names during his seventy years of work. The chronological overview herein has been organized according to seven major periods including the time of Hokusai's apprenticeship for the Katsukawa School.


CHILDHOOD
1760 - 1778
SHUNRO Period
1779 - 1794
SORI STYLE Period
ca. 1795 - 1804
KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI Period
ca. 1805 - 1810
TAITO Period
1810 - 1820
IITSU Period
1820 - 1833
MANJI Period
1834 - 1849


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