大英博物館のインスタグラム(britishmuseum) - 5月11日 01時49分

Katsushika Hokusai died #onthisday in 1849. This is perhaps the single most famous of Hokusai's woodblock prints – perhaps of all Japanese prints ? ?
It belongs to the series Fugaku sanjūrokkei ('Thirty-six Views of Mt Fuji'). The graceful snow-clad mountain stands out unperturbed against the deep blue of the horizon. Yet it is reduced to a tiny hillock compared with the towering strength of the wave which threatens to engulf the struggling boats. Such clever, playful manipulation of the composition is a feature of many of Hokusai's works.
This monumental series was the first to exploit the new chemical Berlin blue pigment, which had recently become cheaply available from China. It provided Hokusai with a strong blue for both sky and water and had the added advantage that it did not fade. Hokusai's series was so commercially successful that the publisher, Nishimuraya Eijudō, extended it with another ten prints, printed this time with black instead of blue outlines.
'Under the Wave off Kanagawa' ('The Great Wave') is probably the most iconic Japanese artwork in the world. The print was created by Hokusai when he was about 70 years old, and was made using colour woodblock printing and many thousands of impressions were made – each one sold quite cheaply. When it was first issued, in about 1830, Japan's contact with the outside world was strictly regulated. It was in 1859 when Japan opened a few of its ports, that more Japanese prints began to be exported to Europe. They were quickly discovered and celebrated by European and American artists like Whistler, Van Gogh and Monet. The Great Wave inspired Debussy's symphonic sketches La Mer and has become one of the most iconic images of the power of the sea.
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