Hokusai

Hokusai had been working as a print designer and painter for half a century before producing Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji around 1830 to 1832, in his early seventies; it includes The Great Wave off Kanagawa. He wrote that nothing he made before seventy was worth noticing and hoped to improve until he was a hundred. The series' bold use of imported Prussian blue made it one of the most reproduced images in the world.