Image: Tsunami by hokusai 19th century
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Description: Although it is often used in tsunami literature, there is no reason to suspect that Hokusai intended it to be interpreted in that way. The waves in this work are sometimes mistakenly referred to as tsunami (津波), but they are more accurately called okinami (沖波), great off-shore waves.
Title: Japanese: 『神奈川沖浪裏』 - Kanagawa oki nami ura; The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art, online database: entry 45434
Author: Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎)
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