However, unlike the picture of Kim K crying, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, to give it its full name, was one of the first images to go viral. Angus Lockyer describes Katsushika Hokusai's Great Wave.

Katsushika Hokusai is a world-renowned Ukiyo-e master. Hokusai produced a huge number of great works throughout his career with full of passion and enthusiasm. In his late life, Hokusai called ...

Katsushika Hokusai was probably the most famous and most outstanding Japanese painter and printmaker of his generation and was the artist whose fame was the quickest to cross the seas A ...

But there are other ways of reading Hokusai's 'Great Wave'. Look a little closer ... intolerable - that Japan should refuse to play its full part in the global economy. Japan, on the other ...

Although Katsushika Hokusai is undoubtedly Japan’s best-known artist, some of his works have never been on public display. The British Museum in London will remedy that late September with the ...

The Great Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa', c1829-1831, from the series 36 Views of Mount Fuji. Source: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images HOKUSAI, directed by Hajime Hashimoto ...

But sometimes your heroes are the ones you never get to meet. Hokusai is known for his magnificent print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” 1831, but it’s his “Large Flower” series ...