Puzzle Description:

Katsushika Hokusai's famous woodcut, "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" from his collection of thirty six views of Mount Fuji (Mount Fuji is the white triangle in the background). I started with a fairly faithful image of the original, but couldn't make it solve until I eliminated the second boat and moved the first in front of the foreground wave. Oh well.

#1: Jan Wolter (jan) on Feb 5, 2006

This is the 150th puzzle I've posted to this site.

Wow. I couldn't figure out what it was at all until the end. Very cool!

i love the painting puzzles

I think I saw this one on Antiques Roadshow once.

Very good job. I found this really hard because I mis-read the clue. Thinking it was a Russian shawl, I had a really, really hard time figuring out what it should look like. LOL!

Very nice.

Interesting solve. Hard to see the image.

Beautifully done. But then aren't all of Jan's?

Bravo. Although Jan will never receive this commendation, I want it to be said anyway, for anyone else to see. He has captured the essence of the ukiyoe style very well. The wave is distinctly similar to the original; the white perfectly dots the blue like the drawn rapids of the original. Maybe he wasn't able to make a perfectly pixelated copy of "Kanagawaoki nami ura", but the variations are more than acceptable. I love this beautiful puzzle and its color logic.

What a wonderful legacy Jan has left. All these wonderful puzzles.

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