The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that The Great Wave off Kanagawa(pictured) has been described as "possibly the most reproduced image in the history of all art"?
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A section about the Dutch influence on Hokusai work and other Japanese painters from the late 18th century
Dutch landscape paintings have heavily influenced Hokusai works in the early 19th century. The great wave of Kanagawa, despite being considered as the primary representation of Japanese art for the general public, must be seen as an hybrid of Japanese and European artistic ideas. The fact is that the deep European perspective was unknown for Japanese artists, and not used before Hokusai, making the great wave the less Japanese of all Japanese masterpieces. Without the Dutch influence, Japanese art from the early 19th century to present would have been very different from what we know today (including manga). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A03F:6B8E:EE00:10F7:8322:5F3E:4BD4 (talk) 10:49, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
A few years ago, an article pointed out that Japanese art visually reads right to left, as with writing, while Western art reads left to right. Thus for a Western viewer to "see" what Japanese people and the artist wished to show, it makes sense to look at the image flipped. When this is done, the wave is much more threatening, the mountain more prominent, and crucially, the boats are easy to spot as about to be swamped (moving left to right, into the wave, rather that away from it). In short, it is a much more dramatic image, no longer just beautiful. I'll see if I can find the article, meantime see what I mean here: Copy of File:Tsunami by hokusai 19th century.jpg demonstrating the drama of the image if read right to left