A Japan-based Lego artist employed his considerable skills to build a wonderful recreation of “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” using 50,000 cobalt and white Lego pieces. Jumpei Mitsui—one of only 21 Lego Certified Professionals in the world—utilizes the colorful plastic building blocks to create sophisticated and fascinating works of art. During a project late last year, which took some 400 hours to complete and 50,000 Lego pieces, Jumpei reproduced the classic Japanese woodcut print by Katsushika Hokusai, “The Great Wave off Kanagawa.” The original woodblock print (produced from 1823 to 1829) depicts an ocean swell that appears to engulf not only several boatmen, shown delivering fish to the city of Edo (present-day Tokyo), but Mount Fuji, lingering insignificantly on the distant horizon. To reconstruct the classic work, Jumpei studied videos of crashing waves and academic papers on the topic. Armed with sufficient facts from his research, he proceeded to sketch …