The Great Wave off Kanagawa — Mug
A great wave curls like a claw over three boats, and Fuji sits small and calm in the hollow below.
$14.90
The story and details
The story: From Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (c. 1831). Printed with the newly imported Prussian blue, it became the most famous image in Japanese art. In Europe it reached Debussy, who put it on the cover of La Mer, and Van Gogh, who wrote that its waves were claws and the boat was caught in them.
Details: Glossy black ceramic · 11 oz · the picture printed on both sides with the artist’s name beneath · dishwasher-safe (top rack) and microwave-safe · lead- and BPA-free.
The artist
葛飾北斎 — Katsushika Hokusai, 1760–1849.
Creator of the Great Wave — the old man mad about painting.
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From the same room
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