Poetry enables people to see from a different perspective, much like a painting, creating understanding for the alternate perspective. Through another’s perspective, new opinions and beliefs can be created unbiased to original perceptions. Hokusai’s painting, “Under the Wave,” shows just how much a change of perspective can change one’s comprehension. The first way Hokusai manipulates perspective is by utilizing area to impress importance to the audience. Although Mount Fuji carries a giant position in Japanese culture, the tsunami dwarfs Mount Fuji in area, and the sea spray resembles snow falling on to the tip of Mount Fuji. Hokusai paints the size differential to illustrate how much more important to the sailors, the audience’s perspective,
