- 1. Who is the artist of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Leonardo da Vinci
B) Katsushika Hokusai
C) Vincent van Gogh
D) Pablo Picasso
- 2. In which century was 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' created?
A) 17th century
B) 19th century
C) 20th century
D) 18th century
- 3. What type of print is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Watercolor painting
B) Sculpture
C) Woodblock print
D) Oil painting
- 4. What is the season depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Spring
B) Autumn
C) Winter
D) Summer
- 5. What type of wave is depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Tsunami
B) Tide
C) Whirlpool
D) Ripple
- 6. What is the shape of the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Curved
B) Wavy
C) Angular
D) Straight
- 7. What is the traditional Japanese name of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Kumano kodo
B) Sakura no hana
C) Kanagawa oki nami ura
D) Himeji Castle
- 8. Which mountain is visible in the background of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Mount Kilimanjaro
B) Mount Everest
C) Mount Fuji
D) Mount Rainier
- 9. What art movement is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' often associated with?
A) Cubism
B) Impressionism
C) Abstract Expressionism
D) Ukiyo-e
- 10. During which period was The Great Wave off Kanagawa created?
A) Edo period
B) Meiji period
C) Taisho period
D) Showa period
- 11. What color revolutionized Japanese prints in The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Viridian green
B) Cobalt blue
C) Prussian blue
D) Ultramarine
- 12. What European development influenced the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Cubism
B) Pointillism
C) Graphical perspective
D) Impressionism
- 13. How many copies of The Great Wave off Kanagawa are thought to have survived into the 21st century?
A) Over 500
B) Less than 50
C) About 100
D) Exactly 250
- 14. Which Western artist was inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Rembrandt
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Salvador Dalí
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) Peasant class
B) Samurai class
C) Chōnin class
D) Nobility class
- 17. What does the term 'ukiyo' describe in ukiyo-e art?
A) Traditional Japanese architecture
B) A hedonistic lifestyle
C) Feudal warfare
D) Zen Buddhism practices
- 18. Who introduced color prints to ukiyo-e art?
A) Utagawa Hiroshige
B) Hishikawa Moronobu
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) Ten or more blocks
C) Five blocks
D) One block
- 20. What profession did Hokusai's father have?
A) Painter
B) Bookshop owner
C) Shogun mirror-maker
D) Engraver
- 21. At what age was Hokusai named Tokitarō?
A) 16
B) 12
C) 14
D) 6
- 22. Which artist did Hokusai become an apprentice to at eighteen?
A) Hokusai himself
B) Calza
C) Katsukawa Shunshō
D) Daruma
- 23. What was the size of Hokusai's drawing for a festival in Tokyo?
A) 240-square-metre
B) 300-square-centimetre
C) 100-square-foot
D) 50-square-yard
- 24. At what age did Hokusai claim to have partly understood the structure of animals, birds, insects, and fishes?
A) 60
B) 80
C) 50
D) 73
- 25. What did Hokusai predict about his artistic skills at age one hundred and ten?
A) He would stop drawing completely.
B) He would become famous worldwide.
C) Each dot, each line will possess a life of its own.
D) He would start using only black ink.
- 26. How many volumes of sketches did Hokusai publish as manga?
A) 15
B) 10
C) 20
D) 5
- 27. Which French sculptor created La Vague, inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Camille Claudel
B) Constantin Brâncuși
C) Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
D) Auguste Rodin
- 28. By what percentage did Hokusai reduce the vertical scale of the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) 40%
B) 30%
C) 50%
D) 20%
- 29. What term describes the influence of Japanese art on Western culture?
A) Art Nouveau
B) Impressionism
C) Orientalism
D) Japonisme
- 30. Which artist praised The Great Wave off Kanagawa for its quality of drawing and use of line?
A) Vincent van Gogh
B) Claude Monet
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Paul Cézanne
- 31. Which artist made the first attempts to imitate the use of Western perspective in Japanese art?
A) Hiroshige
B) Shiba Kōkan
C) Utagawa Toyoharu
D) Okumura Masanobu
- 32. What does the struggle between man and nature in The Great Wave off Kanagawa reference?
A) Roman history.
B) Buddhist philosophy and Shinto beliefs.
C) Christian theology.
D) Greek mythology.
- 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 calming influence
D) A sense of serenity
- 34. When was the episode about 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' on BBC Radio released?
A) 1995
B) 2004
C) 2017
D) 4 September 2010
- 35. What do the cumulonimbus clouds in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' typically indicate?
A) Sunny day
B) Rainy season
C) Clear weather
D) A storm
- 36. When was Prussian blue first imported to Japan from Holland?
A) 1840
B) 1820
C) 1830
D) 1810
- 37. Which artist was an indirect student of Utagawa Toyoharu?
A) Okumura Masanobu
B) Nishimuraya Yohachi
C) Shiba Kōkan
D) Hiroshige
- 38. From whom did the Bibliothèque nationale de France acquire its copy of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Raymond Koechlin's bequest
B) Kazuo Okada
C) Samuel Bing's collection
D) Henry Osborne Havemeyer's collection
- 39. How many men are represented in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Thirty men
B) Forty men
C) Fifty men
D) Twenty-two men
- 40. Which genre of Western artists was particularly inspired by Japanese woodblock prints?
A) The Surrealists
B) The Cubists
C) The Impressionists
D) The Realists
- 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) Three relief crew members
C) Four relief crew members
D) Two 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) Paris
B) American cities
C) Tokyo
D) London
- 43. How many original impressions of the first edition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa are known to survive worldwide?
A) 35
B) 1,000
C) 8,000
D) 113
- 44. In which year did the Bank of Japan announce the inclusion of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' in redesigned banknotes?
A) 2004
B) 2017
C) 1995
D) 2022
- 45. What was Prussian blue known as in Japanese during Hokusai's time?
A) Berlin ai (ベルリン藍)
B) Kyoto blue
C) Osaka pigment
D) Tokyo indigo
- 46. When are the new Japanese banknotes featuring 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' expected to begin circulation?
A) 2004
B) 2017
C) 2024
D) 1995
- 47. Which publication's writer called 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' the most famous artwork in Japanese history?
A) National Gallery of Victoria
B) British Museum
C) BBC
D) Wall Street Journal
- 48. What year did Hokusai arrive at the final design for 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) 1826
B) 1812
C) 1833
D) Late 1831
- 49. How many rowers are visible on each boat in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Ten rowers
B) Six rowers
C) Twelve rowers
D) Eight rowers
- 50. Through which city did Western perspective arrive in Japan?
A) Osaka
B) Kyoto
C) Nagasaki
D) Tokyo
- 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) Michael and I are just slipping down to the pub for a minute
C) Uprisings
D) The Sea off Satta in Suruga Province
- 52. How many views are included in The Great Wave off Kanagawa series?
A) Fifty
B) Forty-two
C) Twenty-four
D) Thirty-six
- 53. What event marked Japan's end of isolation and opened it to Western imports?
A) The arrival of Commodore Perry
B) The signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa
C) The 1868 Meiji Restoration
D) The opening of Yokohama port
- 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) West towards Mount Fuji
D) East towards Tokyo
- 55. Where is the artist's signature located in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) At the bottom right-hand corner
B) On one of the boats
C) In the upper left-hand corner
D) In the center of the wave
- 56. Who was one of the first artists heavily influenced by Hokusai's work, particularly The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Claude Monet
B) Henri Rivière
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Vincent van Gogh
- 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) BBC
C) British Museum
D) Wall Street Journal
- 59. Which Indigenous Australian artist used 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' as the basis for his 1992 painting?
A) Lin Onus
B) Hiroshige
C) Gustave-Henri Jossot
D) Kozyndan
- 60. What dominates the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) The sea
B) The fishermen
C) Mount Fuji
D) The boats
- 61. What type of boats are depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Warships
B) Cargo ships
C) Oshiokuri-bune
D) Fishing boats
- 62. What style is characterized by predominantly-blue prints in the series?
A) Yamato-e
B) Sumi-e
C) Ukiyo-e
D) Aizuri-e
- 63. What is the title of the 30-minute French-language documentary about 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) A History of the World in 100 Objects
B) Hokusai: The Great Wave
C) La menace suspendue: La Vague
D) The Private Life of a Masterpiece
- 64. Which company's emoji character for a water wave resembles the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Samsung
B) Apple Inc.
C) Microsoft
D) Google
- 65. Who described 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' as possibly the most reproduced image in art history?
A) Wayne Crothers
B) Ellen Gamerman
C) Hiroshige
D) Gustave-Henri Jossot
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