Discover story behind the "36 Views of Mt. Fuji" woodprint series; "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai. It is not just a huge wave and Mt. Fuji, the boat caught in the wave have a reason.

Katsushika Hokusai’s Underneath the Wave off Kanagawa is a celebrity - one of a very few artworks known the world over, reproduced on everything from socks to surfboards, from book covers to ...

I n 1831, the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai immortalized a snow-covered Mount Fuji in the background of his famous woodblock print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa.Although the image of the ...