The Great Wave off Kanagawa facts for kids

The Great Wave off Kanagawa.

The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a woodblock print made by Hokusai.

The art work was printed somewhere between 1830 and 1833 which was during the Edo period. It is the first print in the series, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. It shows a giant wave threatening boats near the Japanese prefecture of Kanagawa. It was made with the ukiyo-e printing technique.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA), "The Great Wave at Kanagawa"

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  The Great Wave is part of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji with the main theme focusing on the mount. The Fine Wind, Clear Morning print, also known as Red Fuji, is part of the series and is esteemed higher in Japan than the wave print, which is better-known abroad

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  Hokusai's signature

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  Block used to produce woodblock prints

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  Coloured version of the Great Wave from Hundred View of Mount Fuji, 2nd volume

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  A later impression from the original run of the Great Wave with characteristic darker sky.British Museum (1937,0710,0.147)

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  The Sea off Satta in Suruga Province by Hiroshige (1858)

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  La Vague by Camille Claudel (1897)

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  Cover of Debussy's La mer (1905)

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  Japanese 1,000 yen banknote to be issued in 2024

See also

In Spanish: La gran ola de Kanagawa para niños