Yoshitsune Umarai waterfall at Yoshino in Washū Postcard

Yoshitsune Umarai waterfall at Yoshino in Washū. (Washū yoshino yoshitsune uma arai no taki). Woodblock art print by Katsushika Hokusai Print shows two men standing in a stream washing a horse next to a waterfall. Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, October or November 1760 – May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. In his time, he was Japan's leading expert on Chinese painting. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best-known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei, c. 1831 which includes the internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s.