| Among the thousands of prints made during his prolific career, the Japanese artist Hokusai created a famous series of prints, entitled Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, from about 1826 to 1833. These prints express a range of moods from serenity to intense drama. Included in this series, The Breaking Wave Off Kanagawa, or, more simply, The Wave, portrays a scene in which a large wave dwarfs Mount Fuji, seen in the background, while it threatens to destroy the boats beneath it. Hokusai’s work includes some of the finest examples of Japanese landscape printmaking. |
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