“Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave” (Hokusai, n.d.)

“Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave” (Hokusai, n.d.)

Kanagawa – Japan
Art - Print

“The breathtaking composition of this woodblock print, said to have inspired Debussy’s La Mer (The Sea) and Rilke’s Der Berg (The Mountain), ensures its reputation as an icon of world art. Hokusai cleverly played with perspective to make Japan’s grandest mountain appear as a small triangular mound within the hollow of the cresting wave. The artist became famous for his landscapes created using a palette of indigo and imported Prussian blue” (Hokusai, n.d.).

Katsushika Hokusai

Hokusai, K. (n.d.). Katsushika Hokusai: Under the wave off kanagawa (Kanagawa Oki Nami Ura), also known as the Great Wave, from the series thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku Sanjūrokkei): Japan: Edo period (1615–1868). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/45434

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JP1847 (Hokusai, n.d.)

Edo Period (1615–1868) – Japan