Discover story behind the "36 Views of Mt. Fuji" woodprint series; "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai. It is not just a huge wave and Mt. Fuji, the boat caught in the wave have a reason.

However, unlike the picture of Kim K crying, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, to give it its full ... didn’t happen during Hokusai’s lifetime. A print was shown at the 1867 International ...

I n 1831, the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai immortalized a snow-covered Mount Fuji in the background of his famous ...