Hokusai

Hokusai changed his artist's name more than thirty times, each change roughly marking a new phase: actor prints in his twenties, refined surimono greeting prints, the Hokusai Manga sketchbooks that taught a nation to draw, the landscape prints of Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji in his seventies, and finally intense brush paintings in his eighties. He said he hoped to understand nature properly by the age of 110.