The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Hokusai print)
c. 1831 · Resource
A colour woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai, the first of his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. The most iconic work of Japanese art, it later profoundly influenced European Impressionism.
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Around 1831
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Stockton and Darlington Railway opens (1825)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)