The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Katsushika Hokusai · 1830
Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese · 1760–1849
Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hokusai was instrumental in developing ukiyo-e from a style of portraiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals. His works had a significant influence on Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet during the wave of Japonisme that spread across Europe in the late 19th century.
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Katsushika Hokusai · 1830
British Museum
Beauty (Bijin)
Katsushika Hokusai
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Risshi by the Sea Watching Birds
Katsushika Hokusai
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Works worth knowing
2 of Katsushika Hokusai's works, and what makes each one worth a look.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Katsushika Hokusai · 1830
British Museum
The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760 to 1849), created in late 1831 during the Edo period of Japanese history. The print depicts three boats moving through a storm-tossed sea, with a large, cresting wave forming a spiral in the centre over the boats and Mount Fuji in the background. The print is Hokusai's best-known work and the first in his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, in which the use of Prussian blue revolutionised Japanese prints.
Beauty (Bijin)
Katsushika Hokusai
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica. The term ukiyo-e (浮世絵) translates as 'picture of the floating world'.
Where the work hangs
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
3 in the archive · Cleveland, Ohio
British Museum
1 in the archive · London
National Gallery of Victoria
1 in the archive · Melbourne
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1 in the archive · Los Angeles
Tokyo National Museum
1 in the archive · Tokyo
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1 in the archive · New York City
Rijksmuseum
1 in the archive · Amsterdam
Minneapolis Institute of Art
1 in the archive · Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Art Institute of Chicago
1 in the archive · Chicago, Illinois
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