Hokusai's Great Wave

by Timothy Clark

Book Overview

'The Great Wave' is a colour woodblock print designed by Japanese artist Hokusai in around 1830. The print, of which numerous multiples were made, shows a monster of a wave rearing up and about to come crashing down on three fishing boats and their crews. One of a monumental series known as 'Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji', Hokusai's Great Wave - with the graceful snow-clad Mount Fuji on the horizon, unperturbed but wittily dwarfed by the towering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714124672
• ISBN13: 9780714124674
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: British Museum Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.1"