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Under the tutelage of Shunshô, Hokusai produced a number of prints of kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, and beautiful women, as well as landscape ''[[uki-e]]'' prints which experimented with Western perspective, illustrated books, and ''surimono'', more expensive, privately commissioned or purchased works, which were more lavishly made and were either unique or made in very low print runs.

Under the tutelage of Shunshô, Hokusai produced a number of prints of kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, and beautiful women, as well as landscape ''[[uki-e]]'' prints which experimented with Western perspective, illustrated books, and ''surimono'', more expensive, privately commissioned or purchased works, which were more lavishly made and were either unique or made in very low print runs.

He is believed to have married in his early 20s, and though he stayed with the Katsukawa school, the style and subject matter of his works drifted away from those of the school. He began to focus, in both single sheet prints and illustrated books, on historical subjects and landscapes, taking stylistic influence from [[Torii Kiyonaga]], [[Kitao Shigemasa]], and others. Throughout his early career, Hokusai studied a wide variety of styles, refusing to restrict himself to just one master, though the strictures of the school system expected that of him. In addition to studying secretly under the [[Kano school|Kanô school]] master [[Kano Yusen|Kanô Yûsen]], from whom he acquired an understanding and appreciation of brushwork and Chinese (-inspired) imagery and motifs, he also studied the ink paintings of [[Sesshu|Sesshû]], the work of [[Ogata Korin|Ôgata Kôrin]] and of several artists of the [[Tosa school]], as well as what little he could of Western painting. He would also study under [[Shiba Kokan|Shiba Kôkan]], master of [[Ranga|Japanese Western-style painting]], in 1796, adopting and adapting all of these disparate influences into his own personal style.

He is believed to have married in his early 20s, and though he stayed with the Katsukawa school, the style and subject matter of his works drifted away from those of the school. He began to focus, in both single sheet prints and illustrated books, on historical subjects and landscapes, taking stylistic influence from [[Torii Kiyonaga]], [[Kitao Shigemasa]], and others. Throughout his early career, Hokusai studied a wide variety of styles, refusing to restrict himself to just one master, though the strictures of the school system expected that of him. In addition to studying secretly under the [[Kano school|Kanô school]] master [[Kano Yusen|Kanô Yûsen]], from whom he acquired an understanding and appreciation of brushwork and Chinese (-inspired) imagery and motifs, he also studied the ink paintings of [[Sesshu|Sesshû]], the work of [[Ogata Korin|Ogata Kôrin]] and of several artists of the [[Tosa school]], as well as what little he could of Western painting. He would also study under [[Shiba Kokan|Shiba Kôkan]], master of [[Ranga|Japanese Western-style painting]], in 1796, adopting and adapting all of these disparate influences into his own personal style.

==As an Independent Artist==

==As an Independent Artist==