{"id":86960,"date":"2019-01-23T13:23:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T21:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/great-wave-depicted-in-hokusais-masterpiece-recreated-by-scientists"},"modified":"2019-01-23T13:23:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T21:23:33","slug":"great-wave-depicted-in-hokusais-masterpiece-recreated-by-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/great-wave-depicted-in-hokusais-masterpiece-recreated-by-scientists","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Great Wave\u2019 depicted in Hokusai\u2019s masterpiece recreated by scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/great-wave-depicted-in-hokusais-masterpiece-recreated-by-scientists2.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For nearly 200 years, Katsushika Hokusai\u2019s iconic woodblock print The Great Wave off Kanagawa has inspired wonder partly because the event it depicts, a towering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/weather\/10640425\/Cruise-ship-passenger-killed-by-freak-wave.html\">freak wave<\/a>, has defied scientific explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team at Oxford and Edinburgh universities claim to have laid the mystery to rest by successfully creating one for themselves \u2014 and it looks remarkably similar.<\/p>\n<p>The achievement is being hailed as a significant breakthrough because, so far, meteorologists and sailors have had no means of predicting the likelihood of violent waves that are unexpectedly large compared to their surroundings.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/01\/23\/great-wave-depicted-inhokusais-masterpiece-recreated-scientists\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/01\/23\/great-wave-de...cientists\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly 200 years, Katsushika Hokusai\u2019s iconic woodblock print The Great Wave off Kanagawa has inspired wonder partly because the event it depicts, a towering freak wave, has defied scientific explanation. Now, a team at Oxford and Edinburgh universities claim to have laid the mystery to rest by successfully creating one for themselves \u2014 and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}