Katsushika Hokusai’s “Under the Wave off Kanagawa” showing at the Museum of Fine Arts, ... T-shirts, coffee mugs, as tattoos and in memes. “It's almost like a kitsch icon, ...

Katsushika Hokusai's ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ gracefully distills the power of the ocean into a two-dimensional image that's as deceptively simple as it is mesmerizing.

A rare copy of “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” one of art history’s most iconic images, has become the most expensive artwork by Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai ever to sell at auction.

Katsushika Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura) from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)" (ca. 1830–32). Collection of Metropolitan Museum of ...

Katsushika Hokusai, "Kanagawa oki nami ura (Under the well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa) ['Great Wave']" (1830–1831), Woodblock print, from the series Fugaku sanjurokkei (Thirty-six views of ...

Katsushika Hokusai’s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” is one of the most famous and most recognizable paintings of all time, so much so that Apple’s wave emoji is based on it.

A rare copy of “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” one of art history’s most iconic images, has become the most expensive artwork by Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai ever to sell at auction.