The Great Wave off Kanagawa
The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a woodblock print made by Hokusai.[1]
The art work was printed somewhere between 1830 and 1833 which was during the Edo period. It is the first print in the series, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. It shows a giant wave threatening boats near the Japanese prefecture of Kanagawa. It was made with the ukiyo-e printing technique.
The Great Wave Off Kanagawa Media
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Plate used to print ukiyo-e
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Hokusai, self-portrait of 1839
- Kanagawa-oki nami-ura - huge wave against human.jpg
Detail of the centre of the image. In the background is Mount Fuji in blue with a snow-capped peak.
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Title and signature.jpg
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Hokusai Katsushika, signature and title
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Kōshū Kajikazawa, "Kajikazawa in Kai Province", aizuri-e style
- Debussy - La Mer - The great wave of Kanaga from Hokusai.jpg
Original 1905 cover of Claude Debussy's La Mer
- The Wave (or Kanagawa) sculpture, Selsey - geograph.org.uk - 3527695.jpg
The Selsey Wave by the sculptor William Pye, at the entrance to Selsey, England, is a three-dimensional homage to The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
- 1952.343 - Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami.jpg
Print at the Art Institute of Chicago
- Great Wave Hokusai BM 1906.1220.0.533 n01.jpg
Print at The British Museum
References
- ↑ Kleiner, Fred S. and Christin J. Mamiya, (2009). Gardner's Art Through the Ages: Non-Western Perspectives, p. 115.
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- Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA), "The Great Wave at Kanagawa"
Although it mostly was grainy feeling to the touch, it held a great part of history