This print has taken on international iconic status with the witty composition whereby Mount Fuji in Japan is apparently dwarfed by the 'Great Wave'. This is one of the top twenty or so surviving ...
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‘Under the Wave off Kanagawa’, or more commonly known as ‘The Great Wave’, is possibly the most iconic image in Japanese art. This universally recognised woodblock print, which features ...
Discover story behind the "36 Views of Mt. Fuji" woodprint series; "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai. It is not just a huge wave and Mt. Fuji, the boat caught in the wave have a reason.
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has had a copy of Hokusai's Great Wave (or Under the Wave off Kanagawa, to give it its actual title) painted across its back. Just as in Hokusai's original - which master cutters carved into ...
Kanagawa-oki Nami Ura (Under the Wave off Kanagawa), from the series Fugaku Sanjurokkei (Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji), by Katsushika Hokusai (Collection of the Sumida Hokusai Museum) The most ...
It is probably the most visible work of Japanese art ever. The full title of the image is Great Wave off Kanagawa (or Under the Wave off Kanagawa), and it was made as one of a series of prints that ...
This print has two names: 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa' and 'The Great Wave'. Hokusai used a type of printing called woodblock printing. Woodblock printing began in Japan and is one of the oldest ...