Katsushika Hokusai
Printmaking — historical
, JapanThe story
One curling wave, cut into cherrywood, became the most reproduced image on earth and quietly rewired how the West learned to see composition and colour. Created 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' and the woodblock series that shaped ukiyo-e and later European modernism.
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