There’s a curious thing about Katsushika Hokusai’s Under the Wave off Kanagawa – the renowned Japanese woodblock print that has come to be known, simply, as The Great Wave.

Hokusai, “Under the Wave Off Kanagawa,” known as the Great Wave, about 1830-31, from the series “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.” Woodblock print; ink and color on paper.

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Movie review of “Miss Hokusai”: This exquisitely rendered anime movie tells the tale of a gifted female artist living in the shadow of her famous father in 19th-century Japan.

Hokusai’s prints didn’t find their way to the West until after the artist’s death in 1849. During his lifetime Japan was still subject to sakoku, the longstanding policy that forbade ...

Hokusai already knew, in 1830, how quickly and thoroughly an image’s meaning can change. It’s already there in the picture of Ejiri. The mountain rises against a largely empty sky.

Set in Edo-era Japan, this gorgeous, impressionistic tale follows the life and work of the artist Katsushika Hokusai and his daughter/protege through a series of exquisitely wrought vignettes.

The animated movie “Miss Hokusai” imagines what life was like for the daughter of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), the Japanese artist best known for the woodblock print “The Great Wave off ...

A new museum dedicated to Japan’s artistic giant Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) has opened in the municipality of Sumida in Tokyo. Best known for his iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa ...

Many see Hokusai as one of the world's great masters, best known as a woodblock artist, his image depicting a giant blue tsunami wave has become iconic in Japan and recognised around the globe.