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Hokusai, The Great Wave

iconographic prior

13 regions annotated

Hokusai, The Great Wave

What was annotated

Thirteen regions label The Great Wave (c. 1831) — wave body, claw crests, three boats, Mount Fuji, and spray. The canonical iconographic-prior failure: Fuji was initially placed on the central foam mass, ~240 px from its actual position in the upper right, because the prior "Fuji is the most prominent feature" overrode its pixel location.

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