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Under the Wave off Kanagawa

Katsushika Hokusai, 1830/33 · free wallpapers, public domain

Phone wallpaper of Under the Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai: A towering blue-and-white wave with claw-like curls of foam arches over three long, narrow boats of crouching rowers, while snow-capped Mount Fuji sits small and low in the distance under a pale sky.
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Desktop wallpaper of Under the Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai: A towering blue-and-white wave with claw-like curls of foam arches over three long, narrow boats of crouching rowers, while snow-capped Mount Fuji sits small and low in the distance under a pale sky.
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Under the Wave off Kanagawa is in the public domain (CC0), courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago. Use these wallpapers freely. On Morning Masterpiece it comes with a short story: “What the fishermen know”.

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