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Katsushika Hokusai's 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' belongs to which Japanese woodblock print series?
Answer
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' is the opening print in Hokusai's series 'Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji,' published between 1830 and 1833, in which Mount Fuji appears in each composition, here dwarfed beneath the towering wave.
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Japan's most iconic print, was considered cheap mass-market trash when created—now worth millions.
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Topics
- hokusai
- japanese-art
- woodblock-print
- ukiyo-e
- 19th-century
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