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The Great Wave is on mugs, phone cases, tattoos, and the wave emoji. How a 19th-century Edo print became the most reproduced artwork in human history — and what that ubiquity means.

Monet, Van Gogh, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec — all were transformed by Japanese woodblock prints. This is the story of how ukiyo-e sparked a revolution in Western art.