Under the Wave off Kanagawa ('The Great Wave'), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji. The most famous Japanese print and one of the most famous graphic images in the world. The witty composition, whereby the highest mountain in Japan is apparently dwarfed by the 'Great Wave', marks a high point in Hokusai's creative processing of lessons of deep spatial perspective that ultimately derive from European art. Spray falls from the tentacles of the wave-like snow onto the peak. The whole picture is orchestrated to pay homage to the steadfastness of the sacred mountain. Three swift boats (oshiokuri), delivering fish to market in Edo, head directly into a great storm wave out at sea off Kanagawa. The oarsmen crouch forwards, ready to battle heroically with the elemental power of the ocean. Prussian blue became available in large quantities from China in the late 1820s and provided a wonderfully vibrant new pigment for sky and sea to add to the traditional indigo.
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