Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave, c. 1830-32, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bainbridge Island, Washington. It was 1973. I was eight years old and Hollywood was into disaster movies.

More than 300 works spanning genres, cultures and eras fill room after room in the massive exhibition “Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence.” ...

Type “wave” into your smartphone and a Great Wave replica emoji pops up. Not even Mona Lisa has that! The Great Wave has a LEGO set. A Google search for “Hokusai Great Wave” brings back 3. ...

Katsushika Hokusai’s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” is one of the most famous and most recognizable paintings of all time, so much so that Apple’s wave emoji is based on it. Hokusai ...

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.

The Art Institute notes that "The Great Wave" is not a painting but a commercially-produced print—mass-produced to the tune of thousands and continuing to be printed even after Hokusai died ...

Artist Austin Davis was a high schooler in Yelm when he first saw downtown Olympia’s mural of “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” which has stood on Fourth Avenue at the foot of Budd Inlet for ...

A rare print of “ The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” one of art history’s most iconic images, fetched a record $2.76 million at a Christie’s auction in New York on Tuesday. The 14.6-inch-wide ...

News Auctions Hokusai’s “Great Wave” Makes a Splash at Auction An edition of the iconic woodblock print broke records when it sold for $2.8M this week. Taylor Michael March 26, 2023 ...