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Edo - Japanese Edo Period and Pre-Edo Art
This thread will be used to show and display works of art made in Japan during or before the Edo Period.
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Although it is often used in tsunami literature, there is no reason to suspect that Hokusai intended it to be interpreted in that way. The waves in this work are sometimes mistakenly referred to as tsunami (津波), but they are more accurately called okinami (沖波), great off-shore waves.

The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai