Katsushika Hokusai
Red Fuji
c. 1831
Katsushika Hokusai
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1831
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- Artist
- Katsushika Hokusai
- Year
- c. 1831
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Period
- 19th century
- Style
- Landscape
- Format
- Landscape
Japanese ukiyo-e master, world-famous for his “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji”.
Public domain work · Cleared for print
The story behind it
The world’s best-known Japanese artwork has no single original.
- It isn’t a painting but a woodblock print: thousands of impressions were pulled from carved blocks, and many museums own one.
- Its vivid blue came from Prussian blue, a pigment newly imported from Europe and very fashionable in Japan at the time.
- Hokusai was around seventy when he made the series. The tiny mountain framed by the wave is Fuji.
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