A crashing wave looms over two small ships, Mount Fuji in the background.

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Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)"

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎LinkedCulture matchlcp-5d8d3ec3f17c

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Katsushika Hokusai’s much celebrated series, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjûrokkei), was begun in 1830, when the artist was 70 years old. This tour-de-force series established the popularity of landscape prints, which continues to this day. Perhaps most striking about the series is Hokusai’s copious use of the newly affordable Berlin blue pigment, featured in many of the compositions in the color for the sky and water. Mount Fuji is the protagonist in each scene, viewed from afar or up close, during various weather conditions and seasons, and from all directions. The most famous image from the set is the "Great Wave" (Kanagawa oki nami ura), in which a diminutive Mount Fuji can be seen in the distance under the crest of a giant wave. The three impressions of Hokusai’s Great Wave in the Art Institute are all later impressions than the first state of the design.

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Place
Japan
Date
1830/33
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Credit Line
Clarence Buckingham Collection
Provenance
Yamanaka & Company, New York; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, Dec. 1905; by descent to his sisters Lucy Maud Buckingham (1870–1920) and Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.

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department_title
Arts of Asia
subject_titles
  • waves
  • Mount Fuji
  • water
  • storms
  • mountains
  • sailing
  • ships

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Object ID
24645
Object Type
Print
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Creator
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎
  • Art Institute of Chicago field “Artist” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field · ARTIC's artist_display is multi-line (name, then nationality and dates); only the first line is used.
Culture
Japan
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Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
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Department
Arts of Asia
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Tags
  • waves
  • Mount Fuji
  • water
  • storms
  • mountains
  • sailing
  • ships
  • Art Institute of Chicago field subject_titles (museum’s label not yet confirmed) · copied as is
Credit Line
Clarence Buckingham Collection
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Provenance
Yamanaka & Company, New York; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, Dec. 1905; by descent to his sisters Lucy Maud Buckingham (1870–1920) and Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
  • Art Institute of Chicago field “Provenance” · copied as is
Date
1830/33
  • Art Institute of Chicago field “Date” · copied as is
Begin Year
1826
  • Art Institute of Chicago field date_start (museum’s label not yet confirmed) · copied as is
End Year
1836
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