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“The Great Wave,” Katsushika Hokusai’s woodblock print from the early 1830s, may be the most famous artwork in Japanese history, and its popularity isn’t cresting anytime soon.
There’s a good chance you’ve seen “The Great Wave,” Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai’s iconic 19th century woodblock print of a towering blue ocean crest. The image has been adored, co ...
There’s a curious thing about Katsushika Hokusai’s Under the Wave off Kanagawa – the renowned Japanese woodblock print that has come to be known, simply, as The Great Wave.
Arts See Hokusai’s work from a new perspective at the MFA The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will display over 90 Hokusai woodblock prints, paintings, and illustrated books. South Wind, Clear Sky ...
Set in Edo-era Japan, this gorgeous, impressionistic tale follows the life and work of the artist Katsushika Hokusai and his daughter/protege through a series of exquisitely wrought vignettes.
Katsushika Hokusai, “Fine Wind, Clear Weather,” also known as Red Fuji, from the series “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji,” about 1830–31. Woodblock print; ink and color on paper.