{"product_id":"hokusai-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa-art-mug","title":"Katsushika Hokusai: The Great Wave off Kanagawa, c. 1831 – Art Mug","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree boats are caught under the wave. They are oshiokuri-bune, the fast rowing barges that ran live fish from the Izu and Bōsō peninsulas into the markets of Edo, and the men in them have stopped rowing: they lie flat along the hulls with their hands on the gunwales. Thirty men are in the boats; twenty-two of them are drawn. Above them the crest is breaking into claws. Behind, low in the trough, sits Mount Fuji, snow on its cone, small enough to be taken for another wave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe blue is why the sheet looks the way it does. Prussian blue came in from Holland and reached Japan in quantity in 1829; within two years the Edo print trade had reorganised itself around it. It held its depth across a flat printed area, and it did not fade the way indigo faded. Hokusai used both here, the imported pigment against the old one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was seventy-one. The box at the upper left carries the series title, and beside it the signature: Hokusai aratame Iitsu hitsu — from the brush of Hokusai, who has changed his name to Iitsu. He used more than thirty names in his life and rarely began a new body of work without taking another. This is the first sheet of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi. It sold well enough that ten more were added and the thirty-six became forty-six.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomething like eight thousand impressions came off the blocks over the years, and the blocks wore down as they went; of the first edition, 113 sheets are known to survive. The one printed here is the Metropolitan Museum's, from the Havemeyer collection, left to the museum in 1929 — the key block still sharp in the foam, the gradation in the sky unbroken, the paper light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mug carries the sheet whole, edge to edge: the cartouche and the signature at the left, all three boats, the claws of the crest, and Fuji in the gap. Nothing is cropped away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fourth product image shows four details from the sheet: the title cartouche with the signature, the crest breaking, a boat under the wave, and Mount Fuji in the trough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFine Porcelain — 10 oz. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatsushika Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, ca. 1830–32. Woodblock print, ink and colour on paper, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (JP1847). Open Access, public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":58235138900299,"sku":"90c3fab0-2920-4be2-9e8b-ba8b71b6b4ee","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/GreatWave_Mug_1_front_3000_a766dc74-0522-432b-bcba-baf027753521.jpg?v=1787515646","url":"https:\/\/tazzarte.com\/products\/hokusai-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa-art-mug","provider":"Tazzarte","version":"1.0","type":"link"}