This year’s Japanese Film Festival will open with ... “He could capture moments of great drama, as in his famous Great Wave off Kanagawa, but also humorous or tender scenes from daily life ...

Hokusai’s Great Wave is seen as the ultimate emblem of Japanese art and is the most ... The Great Wave off Kanagawa, to give it its full name, was one of the first images to go viral.

At around 7:57 p.m., an earthquake hit Kanagawa Prefecture with a seismic intensity of lower 5 on the Japanese scale from 0 to 7. The epicenter was in the western part of Kanagawa Prefecture ...

It's now on the back of the new ¥1,000 banknote introduced last year. From the Japan Mint web site: The back depicts “Under the Great Wave off Kanagawa,” one of the most famous works by the ukiyo-e ...