The Great Wave is ubiquitous, but this didn’t happen during Hokusai’s lifetime. A print was shown at the 1867 International Exposition in Paris (18 years after his death) and it had a huge impact.

Katsushika Hokusai’s Japanese woodblock print known as The Great Wave is one of the most famous and widely reproduced images in the world. The iconic blue surging waves, with frothy white caps ...

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Although Hokusai's woodblock prints and paintings had a profound impact ... the artist who lived up to the age of 90. 'The Great Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa', c1829-1831, from the series ...

And it's how the most famous of all Japanese images, Hokusai's 'Great Wave', is sometimes read. This best-selling woodblock print was made around 1830 by the great artist Hokusai, as one of his ...

But sometimes your heroes are the ones you never get to meet. Hokusai is known for his magnificent print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” 1831, but it’s his “Large Flower” series ...

Discover story behind the "36 Views of Mt. Fuji" woodprint series; "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai. It is not just a huge wave and Mt. Fuji, the boat caught in the wave have a reason.