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A set of 103 postcard-sized drawings by this artist, rediscovered in 2019, was commissioned for a never-published encyclopedia called The Great Picture Book of Everything. This artist used eight diagonal gray bands to represent a stream in which two mallards search for food. Late in life, this artist engaged in “daily exorcisms” involving painting a lion every day, and painted (10[1])other big cats in late (10[1])works like Tiger in the Snow. (10[1])This artist (10[1])predicted that his art would finally achieve a divine state at age 110 (10[1])in the colophon to a series of books in which he called himself an “old man (10[1])mad about painting.” (10[1])That (-5[1])series (10[2])includes over 100 depictions (10[1])of a site (-5[1])that this artist (10[1])also depicted in prints like Fine Wind, (10[2]-5[1])Clear Morning (10[5]-5[1])and (10[1])Thunderstorm Beneath the Summit. (10[1])For 10 points, name this artist of Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Katsushika Hokusai [or Tokitarō]
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