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The "Great Wave off Kanagawa"

Despoina Nassou

9 Oct, 2025

Photo By Katsushika Hokusai - Google Arts & Culture — 3gF011oIXv3kcQ, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22126577, https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/

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The "Great Wave off Kanagawa", by the unique Katsushika Hokusai (wood panel, 1831).

Probably the most reproduced work in the history of art and the most famous in Japan.

The sea, the flow of the Eternal Wave, has always fascinated us. This is what happened with this particular work by Hokusai, whose use of the new, exotic – for the time – blue color, Prussian blue, enchanted painters and non-painter alike.

Hokusai's greatest admirer was the impressionist Vincent van Gogh. In a letter to his brother Theo, he writes: "You feel the waves like claws gripping the boat!

And it ends with: "The human heart is much like the sea: it has its storms, its tides, and its depths. It has same to you and the pearls »

Photo By Katsushika Hokusai – Google Arts & Culture — 3gF011oIXv3kcQ, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22126577, https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/

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