The great wave off Kanagawa
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| The great wave off Kanagawa |
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| Katsushika Hokusai , 1830-1832 |
| Japanese color woodcut |
| 25 × 37 cm |
| Tokyo National Museum |
The great wave off Kanagawa ( Japanese 神奈川 沖浪 裏 Kanagawa oki nami ura ), actually Under the wave in the sea off Kanagawa , is the title of a color woodcut by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai .
The pressure is the first and most well-known Journal of Hokusais 1829-1833 arising Series 36 Views of Mount Fuji , in which it around to a total of 46 images, the landscapes around the Fuji showed. Hokusai, who was almost ninety years old, made this woodcut when he was around seventy. The sheet is the most famous Japanese print and one of the most famous graphic works in the world.
description
The original print is 25 × 37 cm and shows three boats coming from Edo in a wave off the coast of Kanagawa in what is now the eponymous district of Yokohama and against the backdrop of Mount Fuji. The dark blue water of the heavy seas surrounds the fragile boats that cross the trough of the waves at lightning speed. The boats are of the Oshiokuri-bune type ( ja: 押送 船 ), about 12-15 m long boats for transporting fish. The fishermen are crouching in the boats over which the wave is breaking at any moment. Hokusai skillfully plays with perspective. Japan's highest mountain appears as a small triangular hill surrounded by the rising wave. The painter is famous for his landscapes, which he created with his palette of indigo and imported Prussian blue .
Executions
The number of existing original prints , probably a few hundred, is not known. These are more than 180 years old and the individual editions have differences in color and individual elements due to the wear and tear of the wooden blocks. On some, the clouds and spray are barely visible. On some, the color of the sky above varies from yellow to pink. Prints are kept in the National Museum Tokyo , the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , the British Museum in London, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg , Claude Monet's house in Giverny and the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam . Tokyo's Sumida Hokusai Museum has a replica of the print.
influence
The picture is considered to be one of the world's most famous works of Japanese art with numerous reproductions, especially in Art Nouveau in Europe. It influenced Rainer Maria Rilke's poem Der Berg and Debussy's composition La Mer , among others . The work of art Die Woge has been located on the Augustus Bridge in Dresden since 2006. It is intended to commemorate the Elbe flood in 2002 and is strongly based on the Great Wave off Kanagawa .
literature
- Julyan Cartwright, Hisami Nakamura: What kind of a wave is Hokusai's Great wave off Kanagawa? In: Notes and Records of the Royal Society . tape 63 , no. 2 , June 20, 2009, p. 119-135 , doi : 10.1098 / rsnr.2007.0039 .
- Doak C. Cox: The inappropriate tsunami icon . In: Science of Tsunami Hazards . tape 19 , no. 2 , 2001, p. 87-92 ( tsunamisociety.org [PDF]).
- Hokusai: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 43, no.1 (Summer, 1985) ( online ) (pdf; 28.1 MB; English)
Web links
- Description of pressure at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art (English)
- Description of the print in the Museum of Arts and Crafts
- Scientific description of the British Museum: Inventory number 2008,3008.1.JA (English)
- BBC : Hokusai's The Great Wave , episode 93 of the radio series on the cultural history of mankind, A History of the World in 100 Objects , aired on October 13, 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cox: The inappropriate tsunami icon. P. 88.
- ^ Cartwright, Nakamura: What kind of a wave is Hokusai's Great wave off Kanagawa? P. 121. ( online )
- ^ Cartwright, Nakamura: What kind of a wave is Hokusai's Great wave off Kanagawa? P. 119. ( online )
- ↑ Woge auf der Augustusbrücke - Jury decided on design on the subject of flood 2002. In: dresden.de. State capital Dresden, June 27, 2005, accessed on December 13, 2016 (press release).