Artist: Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849) Title: "View Through the Waves off the Coast of Kanagawa" Or "The Great Wave" Medium: Woodblock Print Format: Horizontal Size: Oban (14.5x10.5in) Series: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji Paper Type: Washi Rice paper Province: Japan Special Notes: Now Hokusai's "Great Wave" is representative of ukiyo-e itself. It is one of Hokusai's most successful series, "Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji" and astonishing for its fantastic composition and powerful brushwork, showing a giant wave crashing over a boat. The low-angle perspective and shaded waves constitute the key to this work which is one of the foremost masterpieces, and most well-known of all the ukiyo-e landscape compositions.

The print itself is a very good color impression and has never been framed excellent overall with no issues to report.