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Nether the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), besides known as The Nifty Wave, from the series "Thirty-Half dozen Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

  • A work made of color woodblock print; oban.
  • Arts of Asia

Date:

1830/33

Artist:

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎
Japanese, 1760-1849

About this artwork

Katsushika Hokusai's much historic series, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjûrokkei), was begun in 1830, when the creative person was 70 years old. This tour-de-force series established the popularity of landscape prints, which continues to this day. Possibly most striking almost the serial is Hokusai'southward copious use of the newly affordable Berlin blue paint, featured in many of the compositions in the colour for the sky and water. Mount Fuji is the protagonist in each scene, viewed from afar or up close, during various weather weather condition and seasons, and from all directions.

The most famous image from the set is the "Great Moving ridge" (Kanagawa oki nami ura), in which a diminutive Mountain Fuji can be seen in the altitude under the crest of a behemothic moving ridge. The iii impressions of Hokusai's Great Wave in the Art Found are all afterwards impressions than the first state of the pattern.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Katsushika Hokusai

Title

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Bang-up Moving ridge, from the serial "Thirty-Six Views of Mountain Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Origin

Japan

Date

1825–1838

Medium

Colour woodblock print; oban

Dimensions

five.7 × 7.two cm (10 1/8 × 14 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection

Reference Number

1952.343

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