Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave)
SaveKatsushika Hokusai, c. 1830–1832
Hokusai suspends a cresting wave above three narrow boats while Mount Fuji appears small and still in the distance.
- Medium
- Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Size
- 25.7 × 37.9 cm
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Style
- Explore
Image via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936
Sources & credits
Artwork metadata based on The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection records; image provenance is recorded per artwork.