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The Great Wave at Kanagawa (from a Series of Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji), Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1831–33

Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849); Published by Eijudo

Polychrome ink and color on paper  

WATER MOVES

WATER MOVES

 

 

WATER MOVES

 

 

WATER

MOVES

 

 

 

 

The preeminence of this print—said to have inspired both Debussy’s La Mer and Rilke’s Der Berg
—can be attributed, in addition to its sheer graphic beauty,
 to the compelling force of the contrast between the wave and the mountain.
 The turbulent wave seems to tower above the viewer,
 whereas the tiny stable pyramid of Mount Fuji sits in the distance.
 The eternal mountain is envisioned in a single moment frozen in time. 
Hokusai characteristically cast a traditional theme in a novel interpretation.
 In the traditional meisho-e (scene of a famous place),
 Mount Fuji was always the focus of the composition.
 Hokusai inventively inverted this formula and positioned a small Mount Fuji
 within the midst of a thundering seascape.
 Foundering among the great waves are three boats thought to be barges
 conveying fish from the southern islands of Edo.
 Thus a scene of everyday labor is grafted onto the seascape view of the mountain.
 
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

CLOUD CULT

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CATHERINE L. JOHNSON

ARTIST SONIC / VISUAL COEUR POET / WRITER SEE/SEA BEAUTY DETECTIVEPRIEST / ACTIVIST/ SACRED TRUTH-TELLING INTEGRITY RADIANCE

CATHERINE L. JOHNSON

ARTIST SONIC / VISUAL COEUR POET / WRITER SEE/SEA BEAUTY DETECTIVEPRIEST / ACTIVIST/ SACRED TRUTH-TELLING INTEGRITY RADIANCE