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Katsushika Hokusai. The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
1823 - 1829. Color woodcut, 25.4 x 37.1 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Katsushika Hokusai, (1760 — 1849), was an Edo period Japanese artist, painter, printmaker and ukiyo-e maker. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best-known
as author of the woodblock print series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji", which includes the iconic and internationally-recognized print, "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa".
In The Great Wave, there are three boats among the turbulent, broken waves. The boats mold into the shapes of the engulfing waves.
Tiny humans are tossed around under giant waves, while the sacred, enormous, snow-capped Mt. Fuji is just a hill in the distance.
These swift boats, called Oshiokuribune in Japanese, transported fresh fish, dried sardines and the like, early in the morning, to fish markets off the Edo (now Tokyo) Bay,
from fishing villages on the Bohso Peninsula.
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