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