A carp climbs a golden cascade between pine-covered cliffs

A single dark-scaled carp swims up through a tall cascade that drops between golden-tan rock faces dotted with pine trees. Pale blue vertical lines render the falling water against the stone, with white foam churning at the base beside a small fish leaping clear of the surface. Deep blue sky shows at the upper edge. The artist's signature runs vertically at the right edge, level with the carp's head.

Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) is the most widely known of all Japanese artists. Over a seventy-year career he worked under some thirty names, produced books, sketches and paintings by the thousand, and in his seventies designed the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, including The Great Wave and Red Fuji, which reshaped landscape printmaking and later European art. He called himself the old man mad about drawing. His prints are held by the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.