Tartan, I know isn't that print the most amazing thing. I love it and all the variations of it that have cropped up. When I was googling images of it I came across a SAS quilt with the wave embroidered over it! So cool. If you google images "storm at sea quilt with great wave off kanagawa" it comes right up. You should try and get your hands on the book "Hodusai's Mount Fuji, The Complete Views in Color" by Jocelyn Bouquillard. It has the Wave and tons of other very cool woodcuts he did all featuring Mt Fuji with author's commentary. See if your library can get it for you. I keep threatening my DH that we will trek down to the City and see one of the original prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Kathy, I have not experienced any distortion of the marks on any quilt when I mark like this and I have done it on several. sometimes a bit of smudging towards the end from the quilt being rolled up but never so badly that I still couldn't follow the mark.