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 ...

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 ...

Long after sakoku ended, Hokusai’s influence on artists that came after him, Eastern and Western alike, remains strong. The Mt. Fuji prints are familiar all over the globe (“The Wave” seems ...

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 ...

SINGAPORE – Like the famous Hokusai woodblock print The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, the wave of Japanese restaurants opening in Singapore is great and never-ending. Never mind that people here ...

Hokusai's depictions of Mount Fuji have become emblematic of Japan, with his masterpiece "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" now gracing the back of the nation's 1,000 yen note. His prints became a hit ...

The act of painting was always kurara to O-Ei, the daughter of the Edo period master painter Katsushika Hokusai. Since her childhood, she was captivated by painting. O-Ei marries a town painter ...