Katsushika HOKUSAI The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, Woodblock With a dedicated frame Description Loved by People Around the World "The Great Wave" Katsushika Hokusai is the most famous Japanese Ukiyo-e artist in the world, and “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” is renowned as his greatest masterpiece. Mount Fuji sits quietly in the background as the magnificently powerful great wave towers over it. The bold composition and delicate depiction shocked people around the world. The work is well known overseas as “The Great Wave,” and it is said that the composer Claude Debussy took inspiration from it to write the symphonic poem “La mer” (The Sea). “The Great Wave” is still highly acclaimed across the world today and continues to be featured as the main attraction in numerous exhibitions both in Japan and abroad. In 2017, it was sold at a Christie's New York auction for 943,500 dollars, which is the world record for an Ukiyo-e woodcut print. The Most Popular Ukiyo-e in the World “The Great Wave” is highly appreciated the world over as the most important work of Hokusai and Ukiyo-e and is still loved by people today. It is also the most popular among the works we offer. We hope you will see and enjoy “The Great Wave,” created by the artisans at Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints who have inherited and preserved the Ukiyo-e printmaking techniques of the Edo Period to painstakingly produce each print. Hokusai's Pursuit of the Realistic Great Wave Hokusai was known to portray everything under the sun, but one of his greatest passions was the depiction of waves, a challenge he continued to pursue for his entire life. He drew waves countless sometimes, striving to capture their ever-changing shapes and movement. “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” and “Oshiokuri hato ts?sen no zu,” an early work that is said to be its preliminary model, are similar in their compositions but the way the waves are portrayed is completely different. “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” was the product of Hokusai's never-ending attempt to create realistic and captivating representations of waves. -Print Size (cm) 26.4 38.6 cm / Paper Echizen Kizuki Hosho Washimade by Living National Treasure, Ichibei Iwano / Explanation Japanese and English -Frame Size 40.0 x 55.5 cm / Weight about 1.8kg / Frame material wooden (lacquered) / Surface acrylic (UV cut 70%) 100% Guaranteed My goal is to make your experience with me as stressfree as possible. Items that are faulty beyond the description given on our auction site, please contact me. 100% customer satisfaction guaranteed. However, customer who abuse's feedback system and leave a complaint before contacting me are not eligible for a refund. Important notice We guarantee all the displayed items are authentic, and there are no pirated or illegally copied items. Please feel reassured. If you have made two or more successful bids, we combine those items. We package and seal those successfully bid items properly when dispatching. International Buyers - Please Note: Import duties, taxes, and charges are not included in the item price or shipping cost. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding or buying.