Hokusai's "The Great Wave"

"Under The Great Wave at Kanagawa"

by Hokusai

from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji"

Freer / Sackler (Smithsonian) 

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

British Museum

The BBC's "History of the World in 100 Objects" (no. 93)

"Hokusai: A Man Before His Time" (Freer / Sackler)

"Hokusai: Mad About Painting" (Freer / Sackler)

Wikimedia Gallery of works by Hokusai

ukiyo-e

ukiyo-e resources:

Wikipedia article

"Art of the Edo Period" (toah)

"Woodblock Prints in the Ukiyo-E Style" (toah)

"Art of the Pleasure Quarters and the Ukiyo-E Style" (toah)

The Production of Japanese Woodblock Prints

"The Floating World of Ukiyo-E" (Library of Congress)

Lots of Good Examples (mia)

"The Floating World" (ashmo)

Japan: Hokusai's "The Great Wave"

Article on “The Great Wave” at the Met’s “Timeline of Art History”

Hokusai article at Wikipedia

Article on the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji at Wikipedia

More of Hokusai’s work at Wikimedia Commons

"Hokusai:  Mad About Painting" at the Freer/Sackler (Smithsonian) 

Ukiyo-e article at Wikipedia 

Hiroshige.  ”Two Men on a Sloping Bridge in the Rain.”

“Art of the Edo Period” at the Timeline of Art History (Met)

“Woodblock Prints in the Ukiyo-e Style” (Met)
”Art of the Pleasure Quarters at the Ukiyo-e Style” (Met)

The Production of Japanese Woodcut Blocks (J. Noel Chiappa) explains and shows the whole process 

Lots of other examples by lots of artists:

Japanese prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Japanese prints at the Minneapolis Institute of Art 

(On Wednesday, we’ll proceed to Hokusai and “The Great Wave”)