Hokusai 120-Piece Double-Sided Jigsaw Puzzle SetMoving constantly (over 90 residences), creating profusely (tens of thousands of works), and with each phase of his life reinventing himself and taking a new name (around 30 names in all!), Katsushika Hokusai pioneered and mastered artistic styles of late Edo period Japan. Beginning with ukiyo e, or pictures of the floating world, he created woodblock prints of figures under the direction of Katsukawa Shunsh. After Shunshs death and an ensuing series