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.
has had a copy of Hokusai's Great Wave (or Under the Wave off Kanagawa, to give it its actual title) painted across its back. Just as in Hokusai's original - which master cutters carved into ...
This print has two names: 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa' and 'The Great Wave'. Hokusai used a type of printing called woodblock printing. Woodblock printing began in Japan and is one of the oldest ...
In the semi-desert Karoo region of South Africa, ancient rock art depicts merfolk. Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai’s 1831 work Under the Wave of Kanagawa, also famously known as The Great Wave, ...
"The same forces that eventually spurred the Renaissance initially sped up the distribution of superstition," says Michiko Kakutani in her new book, The Great Wave ... known as Under the Wave ...
KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Prefecture--Shichirigahama beach ... the South Pacific and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, which are under threat of being swamped by rising sea levels due to global warming.
Getty Images Delhi has also been reeling under a cold wave. Some areas have recorded temperatures as low as 7C. The cold snap has been particularly hard for Delhi's homeless people who mostly ...
In recent months the threats have become increasingly unhinged, with officials and propagandists painting pictures of doomsday that include sinking the UK under a radioactive tidal wave and ...
Wave washers, also referred to as wave springs, are wavy metal washers designed to provide a compensating spring force or absorb shock when under load. Many design variations have evolved to best ...