Under the wave off Kanagawa

Katsushika, Hokusai (1760-1849)


Item type:
print
Date of creation:
ca. 1830-1832
Height:
25.7 cm  (10 1/8 in.)
Width:
37.9 cm  (14 15/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
ink and color on paper

polychrome woodblock print

Additional titles

Kanagawa oki nami ura
The great wave
富嶽三十六景　神奈川沖浪裏

Description

On the left side of the print, a large wave is seen cresting over boats. Mount Fuji is shown in the background.

Iconclass

2
Nature

Musical works

Debussy, Claude -- Mer

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1
image link 2
Cover art from first edition of La mer

Bibliographic references

Trezise, Simon. Debussy: La mer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) 37. ISBN 0521441005. RILM 1995-04902.

Cirigliano, Michael, II. "Hokusai and Debussy's evocations of the sea", https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2014/debussy-la-mer.

Notes

A crop based on this print appeared on the cover of the first edition of the score of La mer.

RIdIM record id

5118