Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: The Great Wave Off Kanagawa

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” by Hokusai is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

Direct link to see the art: https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/as/original/DP130155.jpg

• Katie Goldin on Twitter
• @ProBirdRights
• ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
• When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
• Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
• Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)

• American Gothic (1930)
• The Scream (1893)
• Dogs Playing Poker
• The Starry Night (1889)

• Hokusai: Beyond The Great Wave, published by The British Museum, edited by Timothy Clark
• “Shimomura Crossing the Delaware” by Roger Shimomura (National Portrait Gallery DC) — this is the art Katie saw interpolating Hokusai’s style with the style of “Washington Crossing The Delaware”.
• The Great Wave: spot the difference (The British Museum)
• Art of the Pleasure Quarters and the Ukiyo-e Style (The Metropolitan Museum Of Art)
• Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (The Metropolitan Museum Of Art)
• Japanese woodblock prints / ukiyo-e (Victoria & Albert Museum)
• Collecting guide: Japanese woodblock prints (Christie’s)
• The Confucian Classics & the Civil Service Examinations (Asia For Educators, Columbia University)
• Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: The Color Blue
• Friday essay: from the Great Wave to Starry Night, how a blue pigment changed the world (The Conversation)
• image upload of “Fast skiffs navigating large waves” by Hokusai
• Hokusai: the Great Wave that swept the world (The Guardian)
• Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji (MOA Museum Of Art Japan)
• The Enduring Influence of Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ (Smithsonian SmartNews)
• Hokusai’s Breathtaking and Rarely Seen Wave Painting Will Go on View When the Freer Gallery of Art Reopens July 16 (Smithsonian)
• Here’s what a lightning strike can do to your skin (NBC News)
• Contrapoints: The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling (YouTube)
• Expo 1867 Paris (Bureau International des Expositions)
• Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: World’s Fairs
• The Perry Expedition and the “Opening of Japan to the West,” 1853-1873: A Short History with Documents (Association For Asian Studies)
• Art Term: Impressionism (Tate Galleries)
• Mar 11, 2011 CE: Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami (National Geographic Education)
• Why the Iconic Great Wave Swept the World (The Getty Museum)
• Hokusai Under the Wave off Kanagawa (U.S. Geological Survey)
• Waves of Sound: Debussy’s La Mer (The NPR Classical 50)
• The Mountain, by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Susan McLean (poetry blog “The Ekphrastic Review”)
• Japan’s redesigned bank notes to enter circulation in July 2024 (Nikkei Asia)
• Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ to feature on new Japanese banknotes (CNN Style)
• Water Wave on Apple iPhone OS 2.2 (Emojipedia.org)
• Hokusai’s 19th Century ‘Great Wave,’ So Iconic It’s An Emoji, Comes Home To The MFA (WBUR Boston)