Description on the reverse of the greeting card also known as the great wave and published sometime between 1830 and 1833 this is the most iconic and the most reproduced work in asian art one of the most recognisable masterpieces in the world the image although simple in its design is in fact the result of a long process and methodical reflection the basis of this method is laid out by hokusai in his work quick lessons of simplified drawing 1812 in which he explains that every objec