The Great Wave? I've etched that in glass ... Why has the mural struck such a chord with the community? For the simple reason that Hokusai's image is timeless, Swords says.

And it's how the most famous of all Japanese images, Hokusai's 'Great Wave', is sometimes read. This best-selling woodblock print was made around 1830 by the great artist Hokusai, as one of his ...