The Great Wave is a new work for Scottish Opera by composer Dai Fujikura and librettist Harry Ross.

The Great Wave off Kanagawa is an iconic image. Katsushika Hokusai’s 1830s print, depicting a towering sea surge, has travelled far beyond its origins to evoke Japan around the world, upstaging ...

He survived a stroke, a lightning strike, a fire – and created one of the world’s most recognisable images. Now the Japanese artist’s ‘wild, fascinating’ life has inspired an opera ...

There are strong performances and much to admire in Dai Fujikura and Harry Ross’s opera about the Japanese artist, but it feels strangely inert ...

Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji is a series of ukiyo-e prints by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), who was in his seventies when he produced the work. Coinciding with a surge of interest in pilgrimages ...

Katsushika Hokusai’s Japanese woodblock print colloquially known as “The Great Wave” stands as one of the most famous and widely reproduced images in the world. The famed composition crops up on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By the time Katsushika Hokusai painted The Great Wave he was already a celebrity in Japan. The iconic print was produced in 1831 ...

Known as the creator of the world-famous Great Wave off Kanagawa, Hokusai constantly innovated and improved his craft through a long lifetime in Edo’s art world. In a famous afterword to an edition of ...

Kendall DeBoer, assistant curator of contemporary art at the MFA, walks through “Boru Sibaso Paet, on the foam of the primordial sea,” Linda Sormin’s interactive mixed-media installation at the ...

Type “wave” into your smartphone and a Great Wave replica emoji pops up. Not even Mona Lisa has that! The Great Wave has a LEGO set. A Google search for “Hokusai Great Wave” brings back 3.6 million ...

There’s a good chance you’ve seen “The Great Wave,” Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai’s iconic 19th century woodblock print of a towering blue ocean crest. The image has been adored, co-opted and ...