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Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa-oki nami-ura), also known as the Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjûrokkei)


「富嶽三十六景  神奈川沖浪裏」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1830–31 (Tenpô 1–2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.2 x 37.7 cm (9 15/16 x 14 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17652
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Hokusai (2013), #33; TNM, Hokusai (2005), #s 293-294; Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 229, horizontal ôban #18.21
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1153, 06.1283, 06.2548, 11.17652, 21.6764, 21.6765, 34.317
Signed Hokusai aratame Iitsu hitsu
北斎改為一筆
Marks No censor's seal
No publisher's mark
改印:なし
版元:なし
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.