ID: 700008754 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008754	Record Type: Movable Work
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa (color woodcut (print); Artist: Katsushika Hokusai; Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi, ...; ca. 1830 - 1834; Honolulu Museum of Art (Honolulu, Honolulu county, Hawaii, U...; 13695 )

Note: One of the three best-loved compositions in Hokusai’s Fuji series. Nature’s enormous power is vividly portrayed in the great wave and ingenious composition as both profoundly beautiful and chillingly threatening. The print depicts three boats tossed by the wind and gigantic, towering waves. The boats somehow stay afloat, their crew crouching in the scuppers. Snow falls against the gray sky and over the blue waves. Snow-covered Mount Fuji rises serenely in the distance, far from the turmoil of the breaking waves. Hokusai contrasts the power of a merciless nature and the helpless humans subjected to it. Hokusai, who worshiped Mount Fuji, made numerous studies of it using Western perspective in some, a technique he learned from Dutch prints.

Titles:

The Great Wave off Kanagawa (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

神奈川沖浪裏 (C,U,Kanji,U,U)

Thirty Six Views of Mt. Fuji (series number: 01) (C,U,SE,English,U,U)

富嶽三十六景 (C,U,SE,Kanji,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

color woodcut (print) [300041412] (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, woodcuts (prints))

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Asian art

Creation Date: ca. 1830 - 1834

Creator Display:

Artist: Katsushika Hokusai; Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi, Eijudö [preferred,VP]

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

publishers Nishimura Eijudo (Japanese publishing house, 18th-19th centuries) [500312961]

Locations:

Other: Creation: Nihon [1000120] Asia (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Current: Honolulu Museum of Art (Honolulu, Honolulu county, Hawaii, United States) [500357009] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 13695

Credit Line: Gift of James A. Michener, 1955 (13695)

Display Materials: Color woodblock print; Technique: Nishiki-e (woodblock print with color blocks)

	colored ink [300126356]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, ink, <ink by property>)

	color (pigment) [300264870]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

	woodcut (process) [300053296]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, relief printing processes)

	nishiki-e [300041507]
	.......(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), color woodcuts (prints))

Dimensions: Frame: 26 x 20 in. (66 x 50.8 cm); Mat: 19 x 25 in. (48.3 x 63.5 cm); Sheet: 10 3/16 x 15 3/16 in. (25.9 x 38.5 cm)

Cultures:

Japanese (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Edo (Japanese period) [300106643] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, Asian, East Asian, Japanese (culture or style), Early Modern Japanese)

General Subject:

seascapes (preferred,description)

Specific Subjects:

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

	Kanagawa [1004811]
	.....(Yokohama (inhabited place), Kanagawa Prefecture (prefecture), Japan (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

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

	boat [300178749]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Transportation Vehicles (hierarchy name), vehicles (transportation), watercraft, <watercraft by general type>) (AAT)

	fishermen (people) [300025608]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in agriculture or natural resource occupations>) (AAT)

Outside Iconography:

	Code: 25H2311 Term: wave
	.....Source: Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-)

	Code: 25H23124 Term: tidal wave
	.....Source: Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-)

	Code: sh 85052253 Term: Fuji, Mount (Japan)
	.....Source: Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)

Copyright: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All rights reserved.

Provenance: Prior to 1929, H. O. Havemeyer Collection

Inscriptions: transliterated signature: Hokusai aratame Iitsu hitsu

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

..... Conceptual Works

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

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

.................... Great Wave off Kanagawa

Sources and Contributors:
The Great Wave off Kanagawa	........ [VP]
	........ Honolulu Museum of Art [online] (2000-)
神奈川沖浪裏	........ [VP]
	........ Honolulu Museum of Art [online] (2000-)
Thirty Six Views of Mt. Fuji (series number: 01)	........ [VP]
	........ Honolulu Museum of Art [online] (2000-)
富嶽三十六景	........ [VP]
	........ Honolulu Museum of Art [online] (2000-)

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

....................... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)

....................... Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Honolulu Museum of Art [online] (2000-)