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“The South pointing Carriage.” it was originally used to make sacred scrolls and historical and political texts, but with time, more and more artists started using it to mass produce art prints, along with short books, like travel guides, scripts, and short stories.
The artist that made The Great Wave off Kanagawa was best known as housaki. his real name, however, was Tokitaro, and he used over 30 fake names. every time he changed his art style he also changed his name, but he let his students use the name he had used before. housaki was born in 1760 as the son of a mirror maker, but left his house at sixteen to be the apprentice of an engraver. at the same time, he started working on his own art. By eighteen, he was the student of Katsukawa Shunsho, one of the most important woodprint artists of his time. housaki became famous after creating a 240 m2 painting of a Buddhist monk called Daruma. he became an illustrator and a teacher after that, and published fifteen volumes of his sketches. He also published “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji,” a group of different prints that included the one you have seen above. many copies of it have been made, such as the one below, which replaces the foam with fluffy white rabbits and was made by an artist named Kozyndan.
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Did you know that the Quiksilver clothing company’s logo was inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
http://www.designer-daily.com/hokusais- great-wave-is-everywhere-4697
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