1831 · The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Hokusai publishes the print, part of his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
Japan · 1825–1849
Edo, 1830s
Hokusai's Great Wave, in a city of a million.
Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, c. 18311831
Who governs:
1825Drag to move through the moment1849
In 1831, Katsushika Hokusai is 71 years old and Utagawa Hiroshige is 34 years old.
The world around · Edo, 1830s
- Who governs
- The Tokugawa shoguns still rule a country closed to most foreigners.
- Everyday life
- Edo is one of the largest cities in the world, and the Tenpō famine strikes in the 1830s.
- Arts and ideas
- Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and Hiroshige's Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō.
- Meanwhile
- In Britain the first passenger railways run, and France has a new king after the revolution of 1830.
Politics and power0 here in 1831
Nobody in this group yet.
Arts and ideas2 here in 1831
Everyday life1 here in 1831
Documented in this moment
Where next?
Later, same placeTokyo, 1870sThe shogun is gone, the samurai lose their swords, and the first trains run.
Around the same time, elsewhereParis, 1870sA republic born out of defeat, and painters the Salon keeps rejecting.
Earlier, same placeKyoto, 1590sA foot soldier's son rules Japan, and his tea master pays the price.