ApparelCases & SkinsWall ArtHome DecorBagsStationery The astonishing power of a kaiju, celebrated through a reinterpretation of The Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai.Hokusai Kaiju - Vintage version T-Shirt King Of The Monsters T-Shirt Tri-Blend T-Shirt (Extra Soft) Hokusai Kaiju - Vintage version Also Available As In order to continue, you must be signed in.We offer two types of fit for women. Juniors fit and Womens fit. BustedTees is a U.S. Registered mark of Brain Buster Enterprises, LLC. We offer two types of fit for women. Tell us a bit about this design and what is the message or meaning you're trying to convey. I tried to celebrate the astonishing power of the King of the Monsters through a personal reinterpretation of an icon (The Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai), with a little grunge twist to it.I'm Marco Mottura from Italy, i'm 31 and i'm part graphic designer part gaming journalist. Videogames are my life, i'm obsessed with The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch and my not so secret dream is to see a real dinosaur one day

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The print was created by Hokusai when he was about seventy years old, as part of his Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji series. The print was made using colour woodblock printing and many thousands of impressions were made - each one sold quite cheaply. How did The Great Wave become one of the most famous images in the world? When The Great Wave was first issued, in about 1830, Japan's contact with the outside world was strictly regulated. It was only in 1859 when Japan, under pressure from America and other powers, opened a few of its ports that Japanese prints began to be exported to Europe. They were quickly discovered and celebrated by European and American artists like Whistler, Van Gogh and Monet. The Great Wave inspired Debussy's symphonic sketches La Mer and has become one of the most iconic images of the power of the sea. When this print was first produced it cost just a bit more to buy than a double helping of Soba noodles. Following the Fuji cult 'The Great Wave' is actually a view of Mt Fuji, one of a series of colour prints Hokusai designed about 1830 called Thirty-Six Views of Mt Fuji.

The mountain has always been considered sacred and some of the original purchasers of the print, ordinary townspeople, were believers in the so-called 'Fuji cult'. They periodically made group pilgrimages to climb the mountain; although only men were allowed to go all the way to the top. Mt Fuji is by far the highest mountain in Japan, but in Hokusai's print it is relegated to the far distance and dwarfed by the gigantic wave in the foreground. The spray from the wave starts to look like snow falling onto the peak of the mountain, a visual joke. The eccentric composition of the print is a bravura display by Hokusai to show how he has digested supposedly 'rational' European-style perspective and made something much more dramatic and exciting out of it. When European artists and collectors began to discover and celebrate the print in the late nineteenth, they may well have been responding - consciously or unconsciously - to this European-influenced way of seeing that was deeply imbedded in the image.

Publisher Nishimuraya had craftsmen make many thousands of impressions of the image from sets of wooden printing blocks, maybe as many as 5,000-8,000. Gradually the blocks started to wear out and get damaged. So ideally one wants to see a relatively early impression, before the lines start to get blurred or broken and when the colours are still fitting neatly inside the outlines of the design. The fine, early impression recently acquired by the British Museum, although somewhat faded, is otherwise very sharp and fresh. You can see a unique woodgrain pattern in the black sky either side of Mt Fuji and there is the vestige of a pink cloud at the top. Famous for being famous It is interesting that it’s been picked up as a kind of brand and it’s hard to know exactly why that is, I think it’s sort of like celebrity. Celebrities are famous because they are famous. It’s something that everybody recognises. But I think in the context of Japan it takes on a slightly different connotation today, for example, a lot of railway tickets will feature a simplified version of The Great Wave in summer time because it’s a summer motif, it suggests coolness, it suggest freshness in the steamy days of summer.

So that is certainly one reason why it is very popular, but it’s also such a catchy thing - its great sweeping form, it’s so appealing. There are some images one gets rather bored with after a while, but this is one which I think, for reasons that are not easy to explain, doesn’t seem to get clichéd quite as much as say the Mona Lisa or something else, which is certainly as or as much as famous. I think many people see it as representative of Japan. When you say ‘Great Wave’, you say ‘Oh yes! Japanese art’, but within Japan, what you need to recognise is that within Japan woodblock prints weren’t seen as art they were seen as a popular form of expression and commercial printing. So for a very long time Japanese government officials, Japanese art historians were not happy about the attention that print culture garnered in the West and art historians or the cultured elite wanted Europeans and Americans to look at different kinds of things and not look at this as representative.