A Chronology of All 113 Prints of Hokusai’s The Great Wave

A Chronology of All 113 Prints of Hokusai’s The Great Wave

A few years ago, a researcher looked at every surviving print of Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa that she could find (113 in all) and, using differences caused by “woodblock wear”, developed a system for determining if a particular print was made early in the life of the woodblocks used, late, or somewhere in-between. Did you know there are 113 identified copies of Hokusai’s The Great Wave. I know the title says 111, but scientist Capucine…