The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Painting · c. 1831 · Edo (Tokyo) · Asia

The world's best-known Japanese print; its Prussian blue and Fuji view fed European Japonisme

Author: Katsushika Hokusai
Style: Ukiyo-e — Pictures of the floating world: actors, beauties and views of Edo in mass-printed colour woodblocks
Century: 19th century

Made around the same time (±30 years)

1830 Liberty Leading the People — Eugène Delacroix · Romanticism · Paris
1824 Symphony No. 9 — Ludwig van Beethoven · Romanticism · Vienna
c. 1831 Fine Wind, Clear Morning (Red Fuji) — Katsushika Hokusai · Ukiyo-e · Edo (Tokyo)
c. 1833–1834 The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō — Utagawa Hiroshige · Ukiyo-e · Edo (Tokyo)
c. 1823–1831 Eugene Onegin — Alexander Pushkin · Romanticism · Boldino (where completed)
1839 The Fighting Temeraire — J. M. W. Turner · Romanticism · London
c. 1818 Wanderer above the Sea of Fog — Caspar David Friedrich · Romanticism · Dresden
1818–1819 The Raft of the Medusa — Théodore Géricault · Romanticism · Paris