What are your favorite emojis?

The ink block print, “the great wave of Kanagawa” by Hokusai is the basis of the wave emoji that we use today:

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Unfortunately I could not find an image of the original print on the WordPress image search engine, and my phone won’t save images when I click on them. But you might have seen the picture? A towering wave is breaking in foaming pieces over two japanese fishing boats full of rowing men. In the background across the sea the magnificent mount Fuji stands with it’s upper slopes covered with snow.

Hokusai created many images of mount Fuji, but the great wave is perhaps the best known, it is well deserved that it is represented by this emoji. If you want to find out more about Hokusai its worth looking him up online. He was a wonderful artist.