Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or T… — Katsushika Hokusai | Free high-res download

Q: What is the largest sharp print size for Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)?

At 300 dpi, this 3,867 × 2,644 px file prints up to 12.9 × 8.8 in with gallery-sharp detail. At 150 dpi the file reaches 25.8 × 17.6 in, which is poster-sharp quality.

Q: Which standard frame sizes give gallery-sharp prints of Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)?

Gallery-sharp (300 dpi or above) frame sizes: 10 × 8 in. Sharp-to-poster-quality sizes also work: 14 × 11 in, 16 × 12 in, 20 × 16 in.

Q: Does printing Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) require cropping the image?

Standard frame aspect ratios may not match this artwork exactly; depending on the size chosen, up to 15% of the image could be cropped. Most print-on-demand services let you adjust the crop position or add a white mat border instead.

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Katsushika Hokusai · ca. 1830–32 · The Met, New York

Public domain · CC0 · $0.003,867 × 2,644 px · 10.2 MP

Prints gallery-sharp up to12.9 × 8.8 inat 300 dpi, uncropped · poster-sharp to 25.8 × 17.6 in at 150 dpi

The download is the Met's own open-access file, served by the Met. Big file — give it a minute.

How big can you print it?

Standard frame sizes, turned to match the artwork. "Crops" is how much of the picture you lose filling that frame edge to edge — or keep it all and let a mat take up the difference.

Frame	Effective dpi	Verdict	Crops
10 × 8 in	330	Gallery sharp	15%
14 × 11 in	240	Sharp up close	13%
16 × 12 in	220	Sharp up close	9%
20 × 16 in	165	Poster sharp	15%
24 × 18 in	146	Fine across a room	9%
36 × 24 in	107	Fine across a room	2%
40 × 30 in	88	Too soft	9%

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The ticket

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) is a woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1760–1849 Tokyo (Edo)), dated ca. 1830–32. Woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Size on the museum record: 10 x 15 in. (25.4 x 38.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds it in its Asian Art collection — The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936.

The Met released its scan under CC0, which means no permission, no fee and no credit line required. That file is 3,867 × 2,644 pixels — 10.2 megapixels — good for a gallery-sharp print up to 12.9 × 8.8 in. That is roughly life-size: the woodblock print itself measures about 15 × 10 in.Woodblock prints were made to be printed again and again — a reproduction is in keeping with the whole point of the thing. Keep the paper tone warm. A printer that bleaches the ground to white-white flattens it into clip art.

On the receipt

Artist: Katsushika Hokusai
Date: ca. 1830–32
Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Size: 10 x 15 in. (25.4 x 38.1 cm)
Museum: The Met · Asian Art
Accession: JP2569
License: Public domain · CC0 1.0
Source: Museum record ↗

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