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Hokusai Draws the Thirty-Sixth Wave

Edo, Japan · 1831 CE

At seventy, the master finally captures the great wave's claw. Cheap prints of it will reach Van Gogh's bedside and every wall on Earth.

老人七十岁,伏在矮桌上,画一只爪子般扣向三条小船的巨浪。他画了同一片海三十五次都不满意。这一版将印成上千张廉价版画,飞向梵高的床头和全世界的墙上。

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