THE GREAT WAVE // 大波

Around 1831, the artist Katsushika Hokusai created the most famous image in Japanese art: The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Three fishing boats facing a giant wave about to crash down on them. And in the background, small and still, Mount Fuji. Two centuries later, it's still the image the world associates with Japan.

The wave is the force of nature.

Fuji is what endures.

Hokusai was over seventy when he made it, and he claimed nothing he'd painted before was worth anything. He wanted to live to a hundred so he could finally learn how to draw. You can see that obsession in every claw of foam on the wave.

Our Great Wave reimagines the print as a streetwear poster: the wave in deep blue, the red sun behind Fuji and the type at the bottom, on cream-colored cotton with a washed look that gives it a vintage feel, like a poster that's been on the wall for years.

An ukiyo-e classic, made for the street.

Details

How to wear it

Your usual size for a regular fit; one size up for the oversized Japanese look, with dropped shoulders and a longer drape.

Pair it with jeans or shorts and white sneakers: it's the most laid-back tee in the collection, perfect for daytime and the beach.

Let the wave be big. You be Fuji.