Katsushika Hokusai Tea Light - Great Wave Off Kanagawa (1829-1832)

This beautiful Goebel Glass Hokusai Tea Light displays the Edo Period Ukiyo-e Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai's iconic woodblock print "Under the Wave off Kanagawa" (also known as The Great Wave); it is the first print of the series titled Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Katsushika Hokusai became world-famous through his picture series “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji”. It includes the famous “Great Wave off Kanagawa”. In his homeland Japan, Hokusai’s work was rather considered as “everyday graphics”, whereas in Europe his art contributed to Japonism, inspired artists like Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt and also influenced Art Nouveau. This series of prints is characterized by the significant use of Prussian blue, a new color fashionable in the 1830s, and by the occasional use of Western techniques for representing perspective. Figures and objects were depicted according to their importance, and not according to their actual size, proximity or distance. More details on Hokusai Tea Light Great Wave Off Kanagawa (1829-1832):