Edo period
A feudal period in which the country was unified under the Tokugawa shoguns and a policy of seclusion from the West was enacted.
Edo period
A feudal period in which the country was unified under the Tokugawa shoguns and a policy of seclusion from the West was enacted.
Works of Art
Artists
Katsushika Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei), c. 1830–32, polychrome woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 25.7 x 37.9 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)