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The Great Wave

Artist Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (Japanese, 1760 - 1849)

Dateundated

MediumWoodcut on paper

Dimensions17 x 11 in. (43.2 x 27.9 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineGift of William Knight Zewadski

Object number2013.64.235

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ASIAN

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Edo period or later reprint

figures washing riverside with mountain in distance.

Washing at the River

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

1920 reprint

With and Against the Tide (from Manga series)

With and Against the Tide (from Manga series)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

undated

2 prints
b – ripples and waves, with hind part of horse visible.

The Stirrups of Musashi (Ehon Musashi-abumni)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

1836

2 prints. a – three figures

Series: Hokusai’s Pictures of a Journey

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

c. 1835

pilgrims under a waterfall

A Journey to the Waterfalls in All the Provinces: Pilgrims at Roben Waterfall (Postcard)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

undated

pilgrims under waterfall

A Journey to the Waterfalls in All the Provinces: Pilgrims at Roben Waterfall (Reprint)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

c. 1832

chaotic scene with two laughing onlookers.

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

undated

A woman and a monk standing in front of a pine tree, Text in Japanese on the left.

Untitled Surimono

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

c.1797-1806

A black-and-white print of three dynamic figures in patterned robes. At the top, a man wields a long staff over a tumbling figure wearing a wide circular hat. A third figure collapses below. Japanese text appears top right.

Book plate from unknown volume

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

undated

Two children playing on a ship's anchor.

Okitsu, from an untitled series of views of the T_kaido Road stations

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

c. 1800

Hokusai manga (Random Sketches by Hokusai) Vol.9

Hokusai manga (Random Sketches by Hokusai) Vol.9

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

19th century (possibly 1819)

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