# 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 sanjurokkei)", in Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai designed this in 1830/33, aged about 65. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> A towering wave curls over slender boats packed with rowers, its foaming crest breaking into claw-like fingers, while far beyond, Mount Fuji sits small and still beneath a pale sky, almost like another wave.

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## The work

- Date: 1830/33
- Medium: Color woodblock print; oban
- Dimensions: 25.4 × 37.6 cm (10 × 14 3/4 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1928.1086
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Katsushika Hokusai](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/katsushika-hokusai), Japanese, 1760–1849

Hokusai trained in the studio of the actor-portraitist Katsukawa Shunshō and went on to work under more than thirty names across a career of some seventy years.

20 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Katsushika Hokusai's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-katsushika-hokusai?hang=749) (8 works)
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