The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai·The Great Wave off Kanagawa·c. 1830–32·Woodblock print, ink and colour on paper·The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (this impression)↓

Katsushika Hokusai Japanese, 1760 – 1849

The Great Wave off Kanagawa, c. 1830–32

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A monstrous wave curls over three boats of rowers, with Mount Fuji small and still in the distance. From the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, it used the newly imported Prussian blue and became perhaps the most famous image in Asian art.

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The wave's crest breaks into claw-like fingers of foam, and its curve frames Fuji like a second, tiny wave.

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