ID: 700008708 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008708	Record Type: Conceptual

Great Wave off Kanagawa (woodcuts (prints); Hokusai, Katsushika; ca. 1829/1832)

Note: Woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, published in the late Edo period as the first print in Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. It depicts an enormous wave threatening boats off the coast of the prefecture of Kanagawa, either a tsunami or rogue wave. As in all the prints in the series, it depicts an area from which Mount Fuji is in view. Printing continued until the woodblocks showed wear; there may have been around 5,000 impressions. In later prints from worn blocks, the impression is less crisp and lines are not continuous behind the right-side of the boat and on the left side of the signature box.

Titles:

Great Wave off Kanagawa (preferred,C,U,English,U,U)

The Great Wave (C,U,PO,English,U,U)

In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa (C,U,English,U,U)

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (C,U,English,U,U)

Kanagawa oki nami-ura (C,U,Japanese (transliterated),U,U)

神奈川沖浪裏 (C,U,Japanese,U,U)

「富嶽三十六景　神奈川沖浪裏」 (C,U,Japanese,U,U)

series number: 01 (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

L'arc de la vague au large de Kanagawa (C,U,French,U,U)

La Vague (C,U,French,U,U)

Die große Welle (C,U,German,U,U)

La gran ola de Kanagawa (C,U,Spanish,U,U)

Catalog Level: multiples

Work Types:

woodcuts (prints) [300041405] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, relief prints)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1829/1832

Creator Display:

Hokusai, Katsushika [preferred,VP]

printmaker Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese printmaker, painter, 1760-1849) [500060426]

Locations:

Not Applicable:

Display Materials: color woodcut

	color woodcuts (prints) [300041412]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, relief prints, woodcuts (prints))

Dimensions: 25.7 x 37.8 cm (10.1 x 14.9 inches)

Cultures:

Japanese (preferred)

General Subject:

seascapes (preferred)

landscapes

Specific Subjects:

	waves (natural events) [300343616]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), natural events) (AAT)

	Fuji, Mount [1107685]
	.....(Honshu (island), Japan (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

	tidal wave [300054733]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), natural events, waves (natural events)) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Conceptual Works

.......... Conceptual Works by class: for movable works

............... Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji: First Series

Sources and Contributors:
Great Wave off Kanagawa	........ [VP]
	........ Hokusai, Views of Mt. Fuji (2013)
	........ Exhibition of Hokusai's Masterpieces (1962)
	........ Davidson, 36 Views of Mount Fuji (2006)
	........ Bowie, Drawings of Hokusai (1964)
The Great Wave	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
Under the Wave off Kanagawa	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
Kanagawa oki nami-ura	........ [VP]
	........ Bowie, Drawings of Hokusai (1964)
神奈川沖浪裏	........ [VP]
	........ Forrer, Hokusai and his Tradition (2007)
	........ Kanagawa Prefectural Museum online (2008)
「富嶽三十六景　神奈川沖浪裏」	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
series number: 01	........ [VP]
	........ Honolulu Museum of Art [online] (2000-)
L'arc de la vague au large de Kanagawa	........ [VP]
	........ Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) [online] (2000-)
La Vague	........ [VP]
	........ Exhibition of Hokusai's Masterpieces (1962)
	........ Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) [online] (2000-)
Die große Welle	........ [VP]
	........ Japanische Handzeichnungen (1975)
La gran ola de Kanagawa	........ [VP]
	........ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Yonemura, Hokusai (2006)

....................... Nagata, Hokusai: Genius of the Japanese Ukiyo-e (1999)

....................... Smith, Hokusai: One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji (1998)

....................... Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji. Sackler Exhbition (2012)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Smith, Hokusai: One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji (1998)
	..... Honolulu Museum of Art [online] (2000-)
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
	..... Nagata, Hokusai: Genius of the Japanese Ukiyo-e (1999)
	..... Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji. Sackler Exhbition (2012)