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The Art Institute of Chicago — public domain (CC0). Clarence Buckingham Collection Source

52 Lot

Katsushika Hokusai

Japanese, 1760-1849

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)”

Date: 1830/33
Medium: Color woodblock print; oban
Dimensions: 25.4 × 37.6 cm (10 × 14 3/4 in.)
Inscription: Signed in the cartouche upper left
Department: Asian Art

Estimate £500,000 – 800,000

Offered in Asian Art & Works on Paper, 20 October 2026

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A Under raking light

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Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)”

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Relief

Derived from this photograph by shape-from-shading, as a reading aid. A measured relief map requires photometric stereo and accompanies the full condition report.

B Catalogue note

Provenance

A private English collection, formed in the 1960s
By descent to the present owner

Exhibited

London, exhibition of Japanese prints, 1968

Literature

From the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji

Condition

An early impression with strong colour and clear keyblock. Full margins, light toning at the sheet edges. Unbacked.

This is a summary. A full written condition report, with raking-light and ultraviolet photography, is issued on request and forms part of the description.

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