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Legacy is legacy. To treat Hokusai as a literally who when their art is, to this day, intrinsically tied to an entire country on an official level, is absurd.

Yes, a lot of westerners may not know his name directly (and even then I'd argue anyone with any history with art would), so I'll give you that for on a global scale it's not the same level of legacy as Da Vinci with the Mona Lisa or Gogh with Starry Night, but I really don't think it's that out there to call Kanagawa one of the most famous art pieces in the world and that alone stops Hokusai from being a "literally who".

If we expand it to cultural impact, I'd go so far as to say Hokusai's art is an intrinsic part of the representation of Japanese culture globally.