In the beginning there was the wave. The towering blue-and-white tsunami in the foreground of the most august of mountains in Japan, 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' was one of Katsushika Hokusai’s series of “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.”
Hokusai later produced "One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji". Also from the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, though, I selected the following.
Lake Suwa Shinano Province:
Fine Wind, Clear Morning:
There are many more for you explorers to find. Let me know your favourites and, since I don't think you can insert images in comments, I'll post them for you.
What I find really fascinating is the way so many European painters were influenced as Japan opened up and it’s influence spread. Almond blossom is a painting in particular which draws on Hokusai’s work as well as all those Japanese bridges in Monet’s garden paintings.
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