Katsushika Hokusai / The Great Wave at Kanagawa (from a Series of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji) / Edo period (1615-1868), ca. 1831-33Katsushika Hokusai
The Great Wave at Kanagawa (from a Series of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji)
Edo period (1615-1868), ca. 1831-33

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Creator Name: Hokusai, Katsushika
Creator Nationality: Asian; Far East Asian; Japanese
Creator Dates/Places: Japanese, 1760-1849
Creator Name-CRT: Katsushika Hokusai
Title: The Great Wave at Kanagawa (from a Series of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji)
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1831
Creation End Date: 1833
Creation Date: Edo period (1615-1868), ca. 1831-33
Object Type: Prints
Materials and Techniques: Polychrome Ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 10 1/8 x 14 15/16 in. (25.7 x 37.9 cm) (Oban size)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: JP1847
Credit Line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

The preeminence of this print-said to have inspired both Debussy's 'La Mer' and Rilke's 'Der Berg'-can be attributed, in addition to its sheer graphic beauty, to the compelling force of the contrast between the wave and the mountain. The turbulent wave seems to tower above the viewer, whereas the tiny stable pyramid of Mount Fuji sits in the distance. The eternal mountain is envisioned in a single moment frozen in time. Hokusai characteristically cast a traditional theme in a novel interpretation. In the traditional 'meisho-e' (scene of a famous place), Mount Fuji was always the focus of the composition. Hokusai inventively inverted this formula and positioned a small Mount Fuji within the midst of a thundering seascape. Foundering among the great waves are three boats thought to be barges conveying fish from the southern islands of Edo (modern Tokyo). Thus a scene of everyday labor is grafted onto the seascape view of the mountain.


AMICA ID: MMA_.JP1847
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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