Japonisme Museum
The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai

Edo, 1831

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Katsushika Hokusai — woodblock, Prussian blue pigment imported from Europe

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The Japonisme Story

EAST MEETS,

In 1831, Hokusai painted his wave with a blue pigment shipped from Berlin. The prints sailed back — and Paris never recovered.

The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh

Saint-Rémy, 1889

The Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh — “All my work is based on Japanese art”

One Horizon, Two Skies

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The wave rose in the East. The stars answered in the West.

A man drinking from a Starry Night mug, wearing a Great Wave off Kanagawa t-shirt
A woman drinking from a Great Wave mug, wearing a Starry Night t-shirt

Take the Horizon Home

Wear Hokusai's wave by day, drink your morning coffee under Van Gogh's stars — the same admiration, worn two ways.

A woman wearing Van Gogh's painted copy of Hiroshige's plum orchard print
A man drinking from a mug printed with Hiroshige's Plum Garden at Kameido, wearing the same print on his t-shirt

The Copy, and the Original

In 1887, Van Gogh painted Hiroshige's plum orchard stroke for stroke, from a print he kept pinned to his studio wall. Wear them side by side, the way he once studied them.