The Great Wave Off Kanagawa | 神奈川沖浪裏

Description "If heaven will extend my life by ten more years…If heaven will afford me five more years of life, then I’ll manage to become a true artist." Scent: The Southeastern Shore - Essential oil blend marjoram, cedar, and lemonTexture: Coated clear with icee topper Background Kanagawa-oki Nami Ura, or the Great Wave off Kanagawa is the most famous of Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji, a series of woodblock prints he completed in the early 1830s.The work itself has been described as "the most reproduced image in the history of all art".  It influenced several famous painters, including Claude Debussy, Vincent van Gogh, and Claude Monet.The Great wave is unique amongst contemporary ukiyo-e (woodblock) prints of the time, due to Hokusai's influence from not the only Japanese art style, but Chinese, Dutch, and French.  The woodblock print also features the first use of Prussian blue in Japan, a pigment which was much stronger and had greater longevity than the mor