Hokusai "Under the Wave off Kanagawa" aka The Great Wave

Now Hokusai's "Great Wave" is representative of ukiyo-e itself. It is one of Hokusai's most successful series, "Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji" and astonishing for its fantastic composition and powerful brushwork, showing a giant wave crashing over a boat. The low-angle perspective and shaded waves constitute the key to this work which is one of the foremost masterpieces, and most well known of all the ukiyo-e landscape compositions.

葛飾北斎「富嶽三十六景 神奈川沖浪裏」

Print Size: H 10.4" × W 15.2" / H 26.4 cm × W 38.6 cm
Paper: Echizen Kizuki Hosho Washi made by Living National Treasure, Ichibei Iwano