Land of the Rising Sun

My thoughts are with the people of Japan in the aftermath of the most powerful earthquake to hit their country in recorded history, and the resulting tsunami.
Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, whose depiction of the 'Great Wave' a wood block print done between 1830 and 1833 has become topical in the midst of Japan's disaster.

Even though the artwork was not meant to be a depiction of a tsunami, but one of an enormous wave at open sea, it now resonates as a case of life imitating art. It is now a more powerful image than it was before Japan's earthquake.

'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' by Katsushika Hokusai circa 1830