Work Record
Class [controlled]: • prints and drawings  • Asian art
*Work Type [link]: • color woodcut
*Title: Great Wave at Kanagawa
Title: In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa  Title Type: alternate
*Creator Display: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849); published by Nishimura Eijudo (Japanese, 19th century)
*Role [link]: printmaker  [link]: Hokusai, Katsushika
*Role [link]: publisher  [link]: Nishimura Eijudo
*Creation Date: ca. 1831-1833  [controlled]: • Earliest: 1828  • Latest: 1836
*Subject [links]: • seascape  • wave  • fishermen (people)  • boat  • Mount Fuji (Chubu, Japan)  • Kanagawa (Kanto, Japan)
Style [link]: Edo (Japanese period)
Culture [link]: Japanese
*Current Location [link]: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, United States)  • ID: JP1847
*Measurements: 25.7 x 37.9 cm (10 1/8 x 14 15/16 inches)
[controlled]: • Value: 25.7  Unit: cm  Type: height  |  • Value: 37.9  Unit: cm  Type: width
*Materials and Techniques: woodcut, polychrome ink and color on paper
Material [links]: • polychrome ink  • paper  • color (pigment)  Technique [links]: • woodcut
Description: The large wave dominates the scene, with the small mountain in the background. It is said to have inspired both Debussy's "La Mer" and Rilke's "Der Berg."
Relationship:
      Relationship Type: part of
      Qualifier: 1st in series
      [link to Work]: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849); Thirty-six       Views of Mount Fuji: First Series; 1827-1837

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