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Most people think The Great Wave off Kanagawa appeared suddenly, but it didn’t.
Katsushika Hokusai spent nearly 40 years studying waves before creating his most famous work.

In his 30s (1790s), waves were background elements, gentle, secondary to people and landscapes.
By his 40s, waves grew larger and more dramatic, beginning to dominate the scene.
In his mid-40s, Hokusai shifted the composition, pushing the wave to the foreground and turning it into a threat.
Finally, at 72 years old (1831), he created The Great Wave, combining motion, fear, balance, and the newly imported Prussian blue pigment.

This wasn’t just a wave.
It was a lifetime of observation, distilled into one image.

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