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Yes, it is. There was an episode of Jet Lag (Amazing Race-type YouTube show) where the contestants drew a challenge card requiring them to find a picture of the
by resolutebat 2y ago
Yes, it is. There was an episode of Jet Lag (Amazing Race-type YouTube show) where the contestants drew a challenge card requiring them to find a picture of the Great Wave, but they were deep in the Japanese countryside. They knocked it off at the first vending machine, which had a bottle of water featuring the Great Wave.
That said, it's generally regarded as one of many classic woodcuts, with other works by Hokusai, Hiroshima, Utamaro etc also held in high esteem. And it's known not simply as "Great Wave", but the "Great Wave off Kanagawa", since it's just one of the 36 Views of Fuji series.
- selimthegrim 2y agoI think one variant of the title has “in the offing”
- resolutebat 2y agoIt's 神奈川沖浪裏 in Japanese, which translates literally as Behind Kanagawa Open-Ocean Wave, referring to Fuji being behind the wave in the composition.
- selimthegrim 2y agohttps://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_the_offing https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_the_offing
- JKCalhoun 2y ago> Hiroshima Guessing you meant Hiroshige.
- resolutebat 2y agoSigh, autocorrupt strikes again.