Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji is a series of ukiyo-e prints by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), who was in his seventies when he produced the work. Coinciding with a surge of interest in pilgrimages ...

Almost two centuries after its creation, Hokusai’s print is more popular than ever, featuring on everything from nail art to Lego to socks. What is its appeal? You are never far from a great wave. Its ...

Katsushika Hokusai’s Japanese woodblock print colloquially known as “The Great Wave” stands as one of the most famous and widely reproduced images in the world. The famed composition crops up on ...

Kendall DeBoer, assistant curator of contemporary art at the MFA, walks through “Boru Sibaso Paet, on the foam of the primordial sea,” Linda Sormin’s interactive mixed-media installation at the ...

Without the Japanese printmaker Hokusai, Impressionism might never have happened. Jason Farago examines the moment when European art started turning Japanese. In the beginning was the wave. The blue ...

Hugh Davies has been funded to undertake creative research into game cultures in Japan through Asialink. Hokusai’s The great wave off Kanagawa remains the enduring image of Japanese art. The print ...

The Great Wave is a new work for Scottish Opera by composer Dai Fujikura and librettist Harry Ross.