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==As an Independent Artist==

==As an Independent Artist==

[[Image:Daruma and Courtesan Hokusai.jpg|right|thumb|200px|A ''[[mitate|mitate-e]]'' [[hanging scroll]] ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' painting by Hokusai, depicting a [[courtesan]] accompanied by [[Daruma]].]]

[[Image:Daruma and Courtesan Hokusai.jpg|right|thumb|200px|A ''[[mitate|mitate-e]]'' [[hanging scroll]] ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' painting by Hokusai, depicting a [[courtesan]] accompanied by [[Daruma]].]]

Hokusai left the Katsukawa school in [[1793]], at the age of 33, expelled according to some accounts. This came shortly after the death of both his master Katsukawa Shunshô, and his own young wife, who left him with a son and two daughters, Omiyo and Otetsu.<ref name=davis>Kobayashi Tadashi, Julie Nelson Davis (trans.). "The Floating World in Light and Shadow: Ukiyo-e Paintings by Hokusai's Daughter Oi." in Carpenter, John et al (eds). ''Hokusai and his Age''. Hotei Publishing, 2005. pp93-103.</ref> Extremely little is known of their biographies, but some paintings attributed to Otetsu survive, and Omiyo is known to have married book illustrator [[Yanagawa Shigenobu]], who Hokusai then later adopted as his own son.

Hokusai left the Katsukawa school in [[1793]], at the age of 33, expelled according to some accounts. This came shortly after the death of both his master Katsukawa Shunshô, and his own young wife, who left him with a son and two daughters, Omiyo and Otetsu.<ref name=davis>Kobayashi Tadashi, Julie Nelson Davis (trans.). "The Floating World in Light and Shadow: Ukiyo-e Paintings by Hokusai's Daughter Oi." in Carpenter, John et al (eds). ''Hokusai and his Age''. Hotei Publishing, 2005. pp93-103.</ref> Extremely little is known of their biographies, but Omiyo is known to have married book illustrator [[Yanagawa Shigenobu]], who Hokusai then later adopted as his own son.

Taking the name Sôri, Hokusai continued to produce works in his own personal style, in a variety of formats (single sheets, books, ''surimono'', etc.) and themes. It is said that his "strikingly individual style [of depictions of] frail, wistful female figure[s]"<ref>Lane. ''Images from the Floating World''. p162.</ref> emerged at this time, and would have cemented his legacy as a first-rate figure artist, had he not gone on to do so much more over the course of his nearly 90 years of life.

Taking the name Sôri, Hokusai continued to produce works in his own personal style, in a variety of formats (single sheets, books, ''surimono'', etc.) and themes. It is said that his "strikingly individual style [of depictions of] frail, wistful female figure[s]"<ref>Lane. ''Images from the Floating World''. p162.</ref> emerged at this time, and would have cemented his legacy as a first-rate figure artist, had he not gone on to do so much more over the course of his nearly 90 years of life.