Now Hokusai's "Great Wave" is representative of ukiyo-e itself. It is one of Hokusai's most successful series, "Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji" and astonishing for its fantastic composition and powerful brushwork, showing a giant wave crashing over a boat. The low-angle perspective and shaded waves constitute the key to this work which is one of the foremost masterpieces, and most well known of all the ukiyo-e landscape compositions.

This print is one of Hokusai’s successful series, “Tour of Waterfalls in Various Province”. In this waterfall series, Hokusai pursued the expression of water and this work is the most impressive one in 8 designs. He depicted the Amida waterfall from two different points of view. The top part looks more abstract like a Japanese traditional pattern, Kanzemizu and the middle to bottom part is depicted as a powerful stream.

This print is one of Hokusai’s most successful series, “Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji” and called Aizuri-e which means printed only in shades of blue. The print shows two streams flowing violently into each other, a fisherman on a rugged rock casting his net and the peak of Mt.Fuji soaring out of the morning mist. This is a masterpiece that depicts both the beauty and severity of nature.

This print is one of Hiroshige’s late series, “Famous Places of Sixty-odd Provinces” and considered as one of the masterpieces in the series. Whirlpools in Naruto are popular to visit to see even today. A dynamic expression of waves creating whirlpools is very realistic as if he had visited this scenic place.

This impressive panoramic work is based on the legend of "Miyamoto Musashi Subduing the Whale." Musashi was a legendary master swordsman in the early Edo period. Kuniyoshi depicted the scene of a fight between Musashi and a monstrous whale. Kuniyoshi fully used the tryptic screen to depict a monstrous whale in wild waves. Triptych prints are printed separately and put together afterward. It is extremely difficult for printers to match colors on three separate papers.