Katsushika Hokusai's Under the Wave off Kanagawa, the opening print of his Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series (c. 1831), is one of the most reproduced images in the history of the world. A close reading of the composition, the Prussian blue pigment that made it possible, the five-block printing technique behind it, the Mount Fuji series structure, and the wave's afterlife in Manet, Van Gogh, Monet, Debussy, and the entire Western appetite for Japanese visual culture.

Ukiyo-e is the woodblock print art of Edo Japan. Hokusai's Great Wave, Hiroshige's Plum Garden, the technique, the artists you need to know.

Curator-approved ways to bring Botticelli, Rembrandt, Hiroshige, Rousseau and Klimt into a modern bedroom. With specific print recommendations for each.