A sell-out exhibition at the British Museum has proved once again the popularity of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, whose Great Wave is said to be the world's most reproduced image.

Two prints of Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave are hitting the auction block next month in New York. The Edo Period ...

The Great Wave is ubiquitous, but this didn’t happen during Hokusai’s lifetime. A print was shown at the 1867 International Exposition in Paris (18 years after his death) and it had a huge impact.

And it's how the most famous of all Japanese images, Hokusai's 'Great Wave', is sometimes read. This best-selling woodblock print was made around 1830 by the great artist Hokusai, as one of his ...