An Anglicized title for this print is “Fishing in the surf at Kajikazawa”. This print was the first in the series, “Thirty Six Views of Mt Fuji”. The most famous print in this series was “The Great Wave of Kanagawa”. These images were sold as travel postcards.
The first impression of this print was all blue. The number of colors was increased in later additions. Hokusai was one of the early adopters of this auzuri-e technique (idigo technique). The development of the process is associated with the import of the pigment Prussian blue from Europe. Artists rarely carved their own woodblocks for printing and instead production was divided between: the artist, the carver, the printer. All printing was done by hand, allowing for effects like blending or gradation of colors, which weren't achievable using machines.
The French composer Claude Debussy's tone poem La Mer, is believed to have been inspired by Hokusai's print The Great Wave. The composer had an impression of it hanging in his living room and specifically requested that it be used on the cover of the published score.
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Katsushika Hokusai - Kajikazawa in Kai Province
