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Katsushika Hokusai: The Great Wave off Kanagawa  wikidata:Q28913656 reasonator:Q28913656
Artist
Katsushika Hokusai  (1760–1849)  wikidata:Q5586 q:en:Hokusai
 
Katsushika Hokusai
Alternative names
Birth name: Tokitarō (時太郎)
Description Japanese painter, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 31 October 1760 Edit this at Wikidata 10 May 1849 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Edo, today Tokyo Edo, today Tokyo
Work period 1808 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Edo, today Tokyo, Nagoya,Uraga
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creator QS:P170,Q5586
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Title
Japanese:
『神奈川沖浪裏 Edit this at Wikidata』

label QS:Lfr,"Sous la vague au large de Kanagawa"
label QS:Lnl,"De grote golf bij Kanagawa"
label QS:Lde,"Die große Welle vor Kanagawa"
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Part of The Great Wave off Kanagawa Edit this at Wikidata
Series title The Great Wave off Kanagawa Edit this at Wikidata
Object type individual copy of a print / woodblock print Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Fishermen in their skiffs with a wave about to crash down on them, Mt Fuji in the background. From the series ‘Thirty-six Views of Mt Fuji’.
Date 1831 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium wood engraving print on paper
Dimensions height: 25.8 cm (10.1 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 37.9 cm (14.9 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+25.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+37.9U174728
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Department of Asia
Accession number
1906,1220,0.533, 2008-3008-1-JA and 1937,0710,0.147 (British Museum) Edit this at Wikidata
Credit line 1906: purchased from Arthur Morrison
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Source/Photographer Marie-Lan Nguyen (2011)
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