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Objects provides the most effective evidence to support
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Claim The Great Wave is the most historically significant
artifact within Japanese culture because it represents
global changes in Japanese society
Reason: The Great Wave stands as a prominent
metaphor for the changes in Japanese society because it
tells us about Japan's state of mind as it stood on the
threshold of the modern world in the middle of the
nineteenth century.
This bestselling woodblock print, made around 1830 by
the great artist Hokusai, is one of his series of thirty-six
Views of Mount Fuji.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, as the
Industrial Revolution began, the great manufacturing
powers, above all Britain and the United States, were
aggressively looking for new sources of raw materials
and new markets for their products.
"So this great wave seemed, on the one hand, to be a
symbolic barrier for the protection of Japan, but at the
same time it had also suggested the potential for the
Japanese to travel abroad, for ideas to move, for things
to move back and forth."
In the long years of relative seclusion Japan, govered
by a military oligarchy had enioved peace and stability.
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