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Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
ca. 1830-1832
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Perhaps the single most iconic image of the ukiyo-e period, this print shows the sacred mountain--Mount Fuji, in the distance, across the trough of a great wave. The precarious intermingling of boats and crashing waves in the foreground has led some to interpret the composition as bringing together three primary elements of lived experience: the human, the terrestrial, and the divine
Karin Breuer, Japanesque (2010).
- Artist
- Hokusai
- Publisher
- Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo)
- Title
- Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
- Date
- ca. 1830-1832
- Object Type
- Medium
- Color woodblock print
- Dimensions
- 9 13/16 x 14 1/2 in. (25 x 36.9 cm) Image: 9 13/16 x 14 7/16 in. (25 x 36.6 cm)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Endowment Fund
- Accession Number
- 1969.32.6
