The Multi-centered Modernities of Hokusai’s “Under the Wave off Kanagawa”

No single image from Japan, possibly even all of Asia, has been reproduced so often or undergone so many reincarnations in so many parts of the world as Hokusai’s “Under the Wave off Kanagawa.” At once abstract and concrete, this archetypical great wave is bound up with powerful mythologies of natur...

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Main Author: Christine Guth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2012-07-01
Series:Transcultural Studies
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Online Access:https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/transcultural/article/view/9352