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How the "Great Wave" became a Global Icon

“The Great Wave” is the most reproduced Japanese artwork. Created around 1832 in isolated Japan, it soon became famous around the world. In 1832, “Edo” – the former Tokyo, was a city of about a million people. One of them was the 70-year-old Katsushika Hokusai, a renowned artist. At the time, artists and their #art often were censored by the strict military government of the samurai. Many art genres were forbidden. One day, Hokusai was approached by a publisher and asked to create a series of landscape images portraying Fuji, the holy mountain of #Japan. In the next five years, Hokusai and his printers created over 30 color woodblock prints. One of them showed a large #wave towering over a small Fuji mountain. It soon became a bestseller in Japan. The video explains how the artwork made it from an isolated country to museums and exhibitions around the world.