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Hokusai's woodblock print sends a towering, clawing wave over tiny boats while Mount Fuji sits serenely in the distance. Part of his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, it fused Japanese tradition with imported Prussian blue. It went on to enchant Western artists from Monet to Debussy.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
- Datec. 1831
- MovementUkiyo-e
- WhereMetropolitan Museum of Art, (woodblock print)
- RegionEast Asia · Japan