page_title: The Great Wave off Kanagawa
section_title: Influence
hierarchical_section_title: The Great Wave off Kanagawa / Influence
caption_attribution_description: Foxpedal The Wave, a reverb, delay and modulation pedal with an emphasis on vintage, tape delay. Inside is a mix of analog circuits with digital control. The artwork is based on The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai
context_page_description: The Great Wave off Kanagawa, also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai. It was published sometime between 1829 and 1833 in the late Edo period as the first print in Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. It is Hokusai's most famous work and is often considered the most recognizable work of Japanese art in the world.
  The image depicts an enormous wave threatening three boats off the coast in the Sagami Bay while Mount Fuji rises in the background. Sometimes assumed to be a tsunami, the wave is more likely to be a large rogue wave. As with the other prints in the series, it depicts the area and activities around Mount Fuji under varying conditions. Throughout the series are dramatic uses of Berlin blue pigment.
context_section_description: The print is one of the most reproduced and most instantly recognized artworks in the world.
  Following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan ended a long period of national isolation and became open to imports from the West. In turn, much Japanese art came to Europe and America and quickly gained popularity. The influence of Japanese art on Western culture became known as Japonism. Japanese woodblock prints became a source of inspiration for artists in many genres, particularly the Impressionists. Hokusai was seen as the emblematic Japanese artist and images from his prints and books influenced many different works.
  Vincent van Gogh, a great admirer of Hokusai, praised the quality of drawing and use of line in the Great Wave, and said it had a terrifying emotional impact.
  French sculptor Camille Claudel's La Vague (1897) replaces the boats in Hokusai's Great Wave with sea-nymphs.
  The image inspired Claude Debussy's orchestral work, La mer, and appeared on the cover of the score's first edition published by A. Durand & Fils in 1905.
  The Big Wave (1948) by Pearl Buck
  The Killing Sea, a novel by Richard Lewis, has cover-art depicting an inspired wave, based on Hokusai's work.  The band Pink Floyd have a tendrum with the Great Wave painted on it.
  Indigenous Australian artist Lin Onus used the Great Wave as the basis for his 1992 painting Michael and I are just slipping down the pub for a minute.
  An artistic work named Uprisings by Japanese/American Artist Kozyndan is based on the print, with the foam of the wave being replaced by bunnies.
  Apple macOS and iOS display a small version of the Great Wave as the image for the Water Wave emoji.
  The logo used by the Quiksilver clothing company was inspired by the woodcut.
  In the card game Magic: The Gathering, two cards reference The Great Wave off Kanagawa in their artwork: Rampant Growth and Kiora, The Crashing Wave.
  Seiko Time Corporation manufactures dive watches which feature the Great Wave in relief on the caseback. 
  The image is featured on a limited mintage 2017 legal tender coin for the Republic of Fiji, as created by Scottsdale Mint.
caption: A delay effects pedal with the Great Wave.
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