 - 1. Who is the artist of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Vincent van Gogh
C) Leonardo da Vinci
D) Katsushika Hokusai
- 2. In which century was 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' created?
A) 19th century
B) 17th century
C) 20th century
D) 18th century
- 3. What type of print is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Watercolor painting
B) Oil painting
C) Sculpture
D) Woodblock print
- 4. What is the season depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Spring
B) Winter
C) Summer
D) Autumn
- 5. What type of wave is depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Tsunami
B) Ripple
C) Whirlpool
D) Tide
- 6. What is the shape of the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Curved
B) Straight
C) Angular
D) Wavy
- 7. What is the traditional Japanese name of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Sakura no hana
B) Kanagawa oki nami ura
C) Kumano kodo
D) Himeji Castle
- 8. Which mountain is visible in the background of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Mount Fuji
B) Mount Kilimanjaro
C) Mount Everest
D) Mount Rainier
- 9. What art movement is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' often associated with?
A) Cubism
B) Ukiyo-e
C) Abstract Expressionism
D) Impressionism
- 10. During which period was The Great Wave off Kanagawa created?
A) Edo period
B) Taisho period
C) Showa period
D) Meiji period
- 11. What color revolutionized Japanese prints in The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Prussian blue
B) Cobalt blue
C) Ultramarine
D) Viridian green
- 12. What European development influenced the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Cubism
B) Graphical perspective
C) Impressionism
D) Pointillism
- 13. How many copies of The Great Wave off Kanagawa are thought to have survived into the 21st century?
A) About 100
B) Less than 50
C) Exactly 250
D) Over 500
- 14. Which Western artist was inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Salvador Dalí
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Rembrandt
D) Claude Monet
- 15. What is depicted in the center of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Mount Fuji without any boats
B) A stormy sky with no visible water
C) A calm sea with small waves
D) A large, cresting wave forming a spiral over boats
- 16. Which class benefited from Edo's economic growth and patronized ukiyo-e art?
A) Nobility class
B) Peasant class
C) Samurai class
D) Chōnin class
- 17. What does the term 'ukiyo' describe in ukiyo-e art?
A) Traditional Japanese architecture
B) Zen Buddhism practices
C) A hedonistic lifestyle
D) Feudal warfare
- 18. Who introduced color prints to ukiyo-e art?
A) Hishikawa Moronobu
B) Utagawa Hiroshige
C) Okumura Masanobu
D) Suzuki Harunobu
- 19. How many woodblocks were typically used for full-color ukiyo-e prints by the 1760s?
A) Two blocks
B) Five blocks
C) One block
D) Ten or more blocks
- 20. What profession did Hokusai's father have?
A) Engraver
B) Painter
C) Shogun mirror-maker
D) Bookshop owner
- 21. At what age was Hokusai named Tokitarō?
A) 14
B) 16
C) 12
D) 6
- 22. Which artist did Hokusai become an apprentice to at eighteen?
A) Katsukawa Shunshō
B) Daruma
C) Hokusai himself
D) Calza
- 23. What was the size of Hokusai's drawing for a festival in Tokyo?
A) 100-square-foot
B) 50-square-yard
C) 300-square-centimetre
D) 240-square-metre
- 24. At what age did Hokusai claim to have partly understood the structure of animals, birds, insects, and fishes?
A) 80
B) 50
C) 73
D) 60
- 25. What did Hokusai predict about his artistic skills at age one hundred and ten?
A) He would start using only black ink.
B) He would become famous worldwide.
C) He would stop drawing completely.
D) Each dot, each line will possess a life of its own.
- 26. How many volumes of sketches did Hokusai publish as manga?
A) 15
B) 20
C) 5
D) 10
- 27. Which French sculptor created La Vague, inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Camille Claudel
B) Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
C) Constantin Brâncuși
D) Auguste Rodin
- 28. By what percentage did Hokusai reduce the vertical scale of the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) 20%
B) 30%
C) 50%
D) 40%
- 29. What term describes the influence of Japanese art on Western culture?
A) Art Nouveau
B) Orientalism
C) Japonisme
D) Impressionism
- 30. Which artist praised The Great Wave off Kanagawa for its quality of drawing and use of line?
A) Claude Monet
B) Vincent van Gogh
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Paul Cézanne
- 31. Which artist made the first attempts to imitate the use of Western perspective in Japanese art?
A) Okumura Masanobu
B) Utagawa Toyoharu
C) Shiba Kōkan
D) Hiroshige
- 32. What does the struggle between man and nature in The Great Wave off Kanagawa reference?
A) Greek mythology.
B) Christian theology.
C) Roman history.
D) Buddhist philosophy and Shinto beliefs.
- 33. What emotional impact did Vincent van Gogh describe The Great Wave off Kanagawa as having?
A) A 'terrifying' emotional impact
B) An uplifting feeling
C) A sense of serenity
D) A calming influence
- 34. When was the episode about 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' on BBC Radio released?
A) 1995
B) 2017
C) 4 September 2010
D) 2004
- 35. What do the cumulonimbus clouds in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' typically indicate?
A) Sunny day
B) Clear weather
C) A storm
D) Rainy season
- 36. When was Prussian blue first imported to Japan from Holland?
A) 1830
B) 1840
C) 1810
D) 1820
- 37. Which artist was an indirect student of Utagawa Toyoharu?
A) Nishimuraya Yohachi
B) Okumura Masanobu
C) Shiba Kōkan
D) Hiroshige
- 38. From whom did the Bibliothèque nationale de France acquire its copy of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Samuel Bing's collection
B) Kazuo Okada
C) Henry Osborne Havemeyer's collection
D) Raymond Koechlin's bequest
- 39. How many men are represented in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Fifty men
B) Thirty men
C) Twenty-two men
D) Forty men
- 40. Which genre of Western artists was particularly inspired by Japanese woodblock prints?
A) The Impressionists
B) The Realists
C) The Surrealists
D) The Cubists
- 41. How many relief crew members are at the front of each boat in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) One relief crew member
B) Four relief crew members
C) Two relief crew members
D) Three relief crew members
- 42. Which city has the greatest number of surviving first edition prints of The Great Wave off Kanagawa in its museums?
A) London
B) Paris
C) American cities
D) Tokyo
- 43. How many original impressions of the first edition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa are known to survive worldwide?
A) 113
B) 35
C) 1,000
D) 8,000
- 44. In which year did the Bank of Japan announce the inclusion of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' in redesigned banknotes?
A) 2022
B) 2017
C) 1995
D) 2004
- 45. What was Prussian blue known as in Japanese during Hokusai's time?
A) Berlin ai (ベルリン藍)
B) Tokyo indigo
C) Osaka pigment
D) Kyoto blue
- 46. When are the new Japanese banknotes featuring 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' expected to begin circulation?
A) 2017
B) 2004
C) 2024
D) 1995
- 47. Which publication's writer called 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' the most famous artwork in Japanese history?
A) Wall Street Journal
B) British Museum
C) BBC
D) National Gallery of Victoria
- 48. What year did Hokusai arrive at the final design for 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Late 1831
B) 1812
C) 1826
D) 1833
- 49. How many rowers are visible on each boat in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Eight rowers
B) Twelve rowers
C) Six rowers
D) Ten rowers
- 50. Through which city did Western perspective arrive in Japan?
A) Tokyo
B) Osaka
C) Kyoto
D) Nagasaki
- 51. What is the name of the work by Japanese-American artist Kozyndan based on 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) La menace suspendue: La Vague
B) The Sea off Satta in Suruga Province
C) Michael and I are just slipping down to the pub for a minute
D) Uprisings
- 52. How many views are included in The Great Wave off Kanagawa series?
A) Fifty
B) Twenty-four
C) Thirty-six
D) Forty-two
- 53. What event marked Japan's end of isolation and opened it to Western imports?
A) The opening of Yokohama port
B) The signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa
C) The 1868 Meiji Restoration
D) The arrival of Commodore Perry
- 54. In which direction are the boats facing in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) South, likely to Sagami Bay
B) North towards Edo
C) East towards Tokyo
D) West towards Mount Fuji
- 55. Where is the artist's signature located in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) In the upper left-hand corner
B) In the center of the wave
C) On one of the boats
D) At the bottom right-hand corner
- 56. Who was one of the first artists heavily influenced by Hokusai's work, particularly The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Claude Monet
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Vincent van Gogh
D) Henri Rivière
- 57. What does the orientation of the boats in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' suggest about its traditional viewing direction?
A) The boats face away from the wave.
B) The boats are oriented towards the viewer.
C) The boats face towards Mount Fuji.
D) The slender, tapering bow faces left, implying a right-to-left interpretation.
- 58. Which institution produced a documentary film about Hokusai in 2017 that included a replica of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) National Gallery of Victoria
B) British Museum
C) Wall Street Journal
D) BBC
- 59. Which Indigenous Australian artist used 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' as the basis for his 1992 painting?
A) Hiroshige
B) Lin Onus
C) Kozyndan
D) Gustave-Henri Jossot
- 60. What dominates the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Mount Fuji
B) The boats
C) The fishermen
D) The sea
- 61. What type of boats are depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Warships
B) Oshiokuri-bune
C) Cargo ships
D) Fishing boats
- 62. What style is characterized by predominantly-blue prints in the series?
A) Yamato-e
B) Aizuri-e
C) Ukiyo-e
D) Sumi-e
- 63. What is the title of the 30-minute French-language documentary about 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) La menace suspendue: La Vague
B) A History of the World in 100 Objects
C) The Private Life of a Masterpiece
D) Hokusai: The Great Wave
- 64. Which company's emoji character for a water wave resembles the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Apple Inc.
B) Microsoft
C) Samsung
D) Google
- 65. Who described 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' as possibly the most reproduced image in art history?
A) Gustave-Henri Jossot
B) Hiroshige
C) Wayne Crothers
D) Ellen Gamerman
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