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.

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Hokusai's 'The Great Wave' (painted about 1830), from Japan In the early nineteenth century ...

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 ...

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Katsushika Hokusai’s Japanese woodblock print known as The Great Wave is one of the most famous and widely reproduced images in the world. The iconic blue surging waves, with frothy white caps ...

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 ...