Interesting facts about Kanagawa's Great Wave and Hokusai The Great Wave off Kanagawa, often known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai's woodblock print. It was the first print of Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, which was published probably between 1829 and 1833 in the late Edo period. Whil...