The Great Wave off Kanagawa is an iconic image. Katsushika Hokusai’s 1830s print, depicting a towering sea surge, has travelled far beyond its origins to evoke Japan around the world, upstaging ...
There are strong performances and much to admire in Dai Fujikura and Harry Ross’s opera about the Japanese artist, but it feels strangely inert ...
Read our review of The Great Wave at Theatre Royal, Glasgow. Dai Fujikura’s new opera gets bogged down in biographical detail ...
He survived a stroke, a lightning strike, a fire – and created one of the world’s most recognisable images. Now the Japanese artist’s ‘wild, fascinating’ life has inspired an opera ...
The latest example of this is a new work for Scottish Opera by Japanese composer Dai Fujikura and Scottish librettist Harry ...
Type “wave” into your smartphone and a Great Wave replica emoji pops up. Not even Mona Lisa has that! The Great Wave has a LEGO set. A Google search for “Hokusai Great Wave” brings back 3.6 million ...
A rare print of "The Great Wave off Kanagawa," one of art history's most iconic images, fetched a record $2.76 million at a Christie's auction in New York on Tuesday. The 14.6-inch-wide artwork is now ...
For centuries, the East and West have existed as what seem to be distinct entities — so different in culture and ideology that the art they produced reflected those stark differences. While Western ...
The shochu-based cocktail, part of the bar’s Liquid Gallery menu, is inspired by Hokusai’s art and blends Japanese flavours.