The Great Wave was exciting at the time because it made spectacular use of a new colour, Prussian blue. Beforehand, Japanese artists had to make do with indigo or a dayflower blue and nothing else ...

beautiful blue - prized because of its foreignness. So 'The Great Wave', far from being quintessentially Japanese, as we usually think of it, is in fact a hybrid work, a fusion of European ...

This year’s Japanese Film Festival will open with a ... but you will most likely recognise his most famous works like The Great Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa or Fuji, Mountain in Clear ...

Katsushika Hokusai’s Japanese woodblock print known as The Great Wave is one of the most famous and widely reproduced images in the world. The iconic blue surging waves, with frothy white caps ...