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Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849). 1760-1849. Ink on paper. Explore the catalogue record, image rights and documented connections from National Museum of Asian Art.
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Katsushika Hokusai across 3 collections
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- Under the Wave off KanagawaThe Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1830–32 · JP1847 · Compare side by side →
- 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 sanjurokkei)"The Art Institute of Chicago · 1830/33 · 1928.1086 · Compare side by side →
- New Year's Day at the Ōgiya Brothel, YoshiwaraThe Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1804 · JP29a–e · Compare side by side →
- 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 sanjūrokkei)"The Art Institute of Chicago · 1830/33 · 1925.3245 · Compare side by side →
Related Afterlives investigations involving Katsushika Hokusai
- A blue that crossed borders.The British Museum connects the print’s Prussian blue to the pigment becoming cheaply available to Japanese publishers from China.
- What a mark remembersArtologium compares repetition and surface in a painted vessel and Hokusai’s print. No historical transmission between the two works is asserted.
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PaintingObject type
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Painting
Catalogue: National Museum of Asian Art. Automated source-field normalization; no independent visual interpretation.
Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1
PaperMaterial
Paper recorded in the object's medium.
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National Museum of Asian Art supplies “Ink on paper” in its medium/materials field. This label was normalized by the documented import rule.
Ink on paper
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Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1
InkMaterial
Ink recorded in the object's medium.
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National Museum of Asian Art supplies “Ink on paper” in its medium/materials field. This label was normalized by the documented import rule.
Ink on paper
Catalogue: National Museum of Asian Art. Automated source-field normalization; no independent visual interpretation.
Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1
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