Waving or drowning

There was a lovely programme on BBC4 last night about this picture of 'The great wave' by Hokusai of Japan. It turns out that it is one of a series of prints of Mount Fuji made by the artist using a woodblock method of printing in the 19th century. The full series called 36 views of Mount Fuji actually contains 46 prints and can be found here: www.man-pai.com/Grandes_series/Hokusai_Fuji36/hokusai_36_vistas_monte_fuji_e.htm

He made the series in his old age. The prints are just delightful and I find it quite hard to choose a favourite. Each one has such different colours and detail. There's a windy one with people's hats being blown away, in fact there's one for every possible weather or season. Just lovely.