KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI - The wave, c.1830 - Engraving, 25,4- 38 c .

The Japanese painters and engravers have always offered us a different, almost mystical vision of the natural phenomena. The wave is her much more than a mere oceanic circumstance. It's a monster, a giant leviathan that menaces with its canines the agile and audacious ships that cross, flexible, the Japanese seas. The terrible ocean's claw is so powerful that threatens to devour even the sacred Mount Fuji , presented at the background as another victim of the evil wave