Hokusai’s world-famous print The Great Wave is perhaps one of the most iconic images from Japan. The print features a wave that dominates the frame as it crashes onto people struggling to stay on ...

As many as 5,000 impressions were made from the original woodblocks for “The Great Wave.” Back then, the prints were sold for the price of a bowl of noodles.

The work's official title is "Under the Wave off Kanagawa."And while the rogue crest in the foreground looms large, the framed print's actual size is surprising.

Katsushika Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known as The Great Wave (ca. 1830–32). Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The Art Institute notes that "The Great Wave" is not a painting but a commercially-produced print—mass-produced to the tune of thousands and continuing to be printed even after Hokusai died ...

A rare print of “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” one of art history’s most iconic images, fetched a record $2.76 million at a Christie’s auction in New York on Tuesday. The 14.6-inch-wide ...

The one Great Wave that does appear in the show, though, is one that won’t be widely circulated until 2024—when it appears on Japan’s ¥1,000 ($9) bill.

Type “wave” into your smartphone and a Great Wave replica emoji pops up. Not even Mona Lisa has that! The Great Wave has a LEGO set. A Google search for “Hokusai Great Wave” brings back 3. ...

Case in point: On Tuesday, Christie’s in New York sold Katsushika Hokusai’s “Under the Well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa” for $2.8 million—a new record high for the 1830-32 woodblock ...

Researchers reproduced a deadly rogue wave — and it looked like Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ By Martin Finucane Globe Staff,January 23, 2019, 1:46 p.m.