Hokusai’s Under a Wave off Kanagawa, „also
known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is an ukiyo-e
print, published sometime between 1830 and 1833. It is Hokusai's most famous
work, and one of the best recognized works of Japanese art in the world. It
depicts an enormous wave threatening boats off the coast of the prefecture of Kanagawa. While sometimes assumed to be a tsunami,
the wave is, as the picture's title notes, more likely to be a large okinami
("wave of the open sea")“, text from wiki.
The great waves of the 2011 tsunami were well above security
limits, see the recent documentation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFD0VJPIKmU
:
One of the scenes of the waves smashing Miyako harbour (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-zfCBCq-8I)
shows a boat lifted on top of a wave, then pressed underneath a bridge.
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In the boat underneath the Great Wave people in the boat are
threatened, but most boats in the tsunami were unoccupied and out of control.
The wave belongs to a series of 36 views of Mount Fuji. The Mount
is one of the 3 holy mountains and indeed a particular place visited by several
hundred thousand people each year. But will Fukushima become a place visited as
the ghost city of Pripjat near Chernobyl?
Having seen the original Wave in small 25 x 37 cm with its delicate
drawing, the adaptation from wood to lino had some material limitations with the
instability of the material at a similar size of 27 x 28 cm.
The Wave print consisted of 6 plates. As I have no boats and
clouds I have cut 4 with one used twice for the dark sky around the power
plant. The first plate provides the sky colours and the contours of the plant:
This is followed by plate 2 with the light blue shades of the
waves and boat shadows
The blue shades are plate 3
The final plate 4 provides the contours
Note that as in my recent print Camaret 2 depth comes from
two different contour plates (http://hans-bretagne.blogspot.de/2014/02/camaret-2.html):
The contours of the plant are
introduced with plate 1 with a light inking and a pochoir
Various colour depths and
shapes can be achieved
A pale yellow version is
close to the original Wave print
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