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Under the Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai
Under the Wave off Kanagawa, 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

1760–1849 · Japanese painting, Ukiyo-e · 27 works

Hokusai made Mount Fuji the recurring presence in a series of Japanese woodblock prints. Changing viewpoints bring the mountain into different relationships with the world around it. In The Great Wave, he makes the immense mountain appear small beneath the curling water.

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27 works · 1775–1849

Find Mount Fuji in each print. How does its scale change the scene around it?

1775–1849 · 3 works

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1790–1804 · 12 works

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1823–1849 · 12 works

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Katsushika Hokusai was seventy when he began Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, the series that made landscape prints popular. Four of its views hang here, with a waterfall from a series of about 1833, two cranes on a tall sheet, and the demon queller Shōki, painted in ink alone in 1849, the year Hokusai died at about ninety.

In the museum: Ukiyo-e room · 7 works

Original museum reproductions, with source records on every artwork page.

Artist information: The Met.

Public-domain art. An imagined museum; no museum affiliation.