The Great Wave: Inspired by a Woodcut by Hokusai Great Britain - Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) S E C T I

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The Great Wave: Inspired by a Woodcut by Hokusai Great Britain - Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) S E C T IHokusai's classic woodcut of a majestic wave becomes the starting point for a storybook children will want to read again and again. On a stormy winter's day, a baby boy, Naoki, is swept into a fisherman's boat by a great wave. Years pass, but still Naoki does not grow. Must he return to the ocean in order to become a young man? The answer arrives in the form of a mythic fish. Japanese artist Hokusai is one of the world's most celebrated printmakers.