The Great Wave - Part 1

191K views · 11 years ago · documentary · evergreen

The first part of David Bull's long series on reproducing Hokusai's Great Wave by traditional Japanese woodblock printing. Bull is a woodblock printer in Tokyo, and the series follows the work as he does it.

HN rates the series among the best long-form process videos, and suggests it to anyone interested in the print.

“The series is up there with Clickspring's skeleton clock in my pantheon of "greatest long-form process videos"”

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@MengerSponge2026 · in “The Rediscovery of 103 Hokusai Lost Sketches (2021)”
I bought one of his prints of The Great Wave off Kanagawa. It's stunning. The series is up there with Clickspring's skeleton clock in my pantheon of "greatest long-form process videos" ▶ this video
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@adrianN2024 · in “Things to know about the Great Wave”
There is a very good multi part video about creating a facsimile of the print on YouTube ▶ this video
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@Cerium2021 · in “The 'Great Wave' has mystified art lovers for generations (2019)”
You may find David Bull's youtube content interesting. He is a Japanese woodblock printer living in Asakusa, Tokyo, where he runs a print shop. In 2015 he did a reproduction of the Great Wave and documented the progress online: ▶ this video
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@rwmj2020 · in “Dutch museum says van Gogh painting stolen in overnight raid”
I think there's a genuine reason for them to be worth more since they are closer to the original painting. There's a fantastic (and long) series on Youtube about this: ▶ this video
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@Obsnold2020 · in “The 'Great Wave' has mystified art lovers for generations (2019)”
If anyone is interested in Japanese wood block prints I really suggest checking out David Bulls channel on YouTube. He did a whole series on his own copy of the Great Wave. ▶ this video
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