Artist field note

Katsushika Hokusai

The world is never still.

Appears inJapanNature
The Amida Falls in the Far Reaches of the Kisokaidō Road by Katsushika Hokusai
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domainSource ↗

04 / 05

The Amida Falls in the Far Reaches of the Kisokaidō Road

c. 1832

Water plunges from a circular source that makes natural force feel both observed and invented.

The five in one idea

Hokusai gave fleeting natural forces a graphic structure powerful enough to travel across cultures and centuries.