jeudi 3 mai 2007

Tsunami by Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai, Tsunami, woodcut, created between 1823-1829

Sujet d'actualité avec les changements climatiques...
Subject of topicality with the climatic changes...

""Behind the Great Wave at Kanagawa" (神奈川沖波裏), Color woodcut, 10 x 15 in; Metropolitan Museum of art, New York. 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." From Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsushika_Hokusai