How did hokusai die

 “If heaven would only give me five more years of life I could become a truly great painter.”
(Hokusai’s final words before his death in )

        Hokusai was born in , sometime in October or November.

He was born in the Honjo neighbourhood in Edo (present-day Tokyo), close to the Sumida River and to the countryside. At the age of four, he was adopted by Nakajima Ise, a mirror designer for the Tokugawa royal family.

When was hokusai born and died

Between and , he became a woodcutter, engraving the designs of local painters. Only three years later, though, he put an end to this activity in order to become an artist himself, refusing to be a simple interpreter or translator of others’ talent.

        In order to pursue his career, at the age of eighteen he entered the studio of Katsukawa Shunsh&#;, where he adopted the name Katsukawa Shunr&#;. In , the young painter, at twenty-nine years old, was forced to leave Katsukawa’s studio under peculiar circumstances