The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830–32, framed print

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830–32

Japanese Prints

Katsushika Hokusai designed Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as The Great Wave, around 1830–32 for his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. A towering wave curls over three boats of rowers off the coast of Kanagawa, with Mount Fuji small and snow-capped in the distance. This color woodblock impression is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (H. O. Havemeyer Collection).

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