Jigsaw Hokusai Puzzle - Met Museum - 500 Pieces

About Jigsaw Hokusai Puzzle - Met Museum - 1000 Pieces

Assemble one of the most iconic images in Japanese art. Hokusai's famous woodblock print Under the Great Wave at Kanagawa (also known as The Great Wave), ca. 1830–32, is from his series of Edo-period prints in The Met collection. In addition to its sheer graphic beauty, the work fascinates with its contrast between the powerfully surging wave and the distant mountain.

The Great Wave off Kanagawa, also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a woodblock print. It is the first in a series of prints entitled Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji,” published between 1831 and 1833. 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. These series earned him fame in Japan and overseas.