Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 Japanese, 1760-1849. 1830/33. Color woodblock print; oban. Explore the catalogue record, image rights and documented connections from The Art Institute of Chicago.
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Katsushika Hokusai across 3 collections
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- Under the Wave off KanagawaThe Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1830–32 · JP1847 · Compare side by side →
- New Year's Day at the Ōgiya Brothel, YoshiwaraThe Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1804 · JP29a–e · Compare side by side →
- TravelersNational Museum of Asian Art · 1760-1849 · F1904.273 · Compare side by side →
- Flying CuckooNational Museum of Asian Art · ca. 1809 · F1904.187 · Compare side by side →
Related Afterlives investigations involving Katsushika Hokusai
- A blue that crossed borders.The British Museum connects the print’s Prussian blue to the pigment becoming cheaply available to Japanese publishers from China.
- What a mark remembersArtologium compares repetition and surface in a painted vessel and Hokusai’s print. No historical transmission between the two works is asserted.
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Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1
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Color woodblock print; oban
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Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1
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