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The Great Wave Off Kanagawa (1831) by Katsushika Hokusai is one of the world's most famous works of art. Hokusai's woodblock prints created a new taste for landscape and nature and caused a major aesthetic upheaval among European artists at the end of the nineteenth century. Aurelie Samuel rediscovers this iconic artist whose work, embodying Japanese spirituality, remains iconic even to this day. Fold each page back to create a pop-up miniature version of this great artist's work for display in your home.

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An art historian specializing in Asian art and a heritage curator,Aurelie Samuel is the author of numerous books, including: Kabuki, Costumes of Japanese Theater (Artlys, 2012), Kimono: The Ladies' Delight (Gallimard, 2017), Samurai: From War to the Way of the Arts (Snoeck, 2017), and At the Court of Prince Genji. A Thousand Years of Japanese Imagination (Gallimard, 2023).

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