 - 1. Who is the artist of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Leonardo da Vinci
B) Vincent van Gogh
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Katsushika Hokusai
- 2. In which century was 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' created?
A) 17th century
B) 18th century
C) 20th century
D) 19th century
- 3. What type of print is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Woodblock print
B) Sculpture
C) Oil painting
D) Watercolor painting
- 4. What is the season depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Autumn
B) Summer
C) Spring
D) Winter
- 5. What type of wave is depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Ripple
B) Tide
C) Tsunami
D) Whirlpool
- 6. What is the shape of the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Straight
B) Angular
C) Curved
D) Wavy
- 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 Everest
B) Mount Fuji
C) Mount Rainier
D) Mount Kilimanjaro
- 9. What art movement is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' often associated with?
A) Ukiyo-e
B) Abstract Expressionism
C) Impressionism
D) Cubism
- 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) Ultramarine
B) Prussian blue
C) Cobalt blue
D) Viridian green
- 12. What European development influenced the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Pointillism
B) Graphical perspective
C) Cubism
D) Impressionism
- 13. How many copies of The Great Wave off Kanagawa are thought to have survived into the 21st century?
A) Exactly 250
B) Over 500
C) Less than 50
D) About 100
- 14. Which Western artist was inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Claude Monet
B) Salvador Dalí
C) Rembrandt
D) Pablo Picasso
- 15. What is depicted in the center of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Mount Fuji without any boats
B) A calm sea with small waves
C) A large, cresting wave forming a spiral over 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) Zen Buddhism practices
C) A hedonistic lifestyle
D) Traditional Japanese architecture
- 18. Who introduced color prints to ukiyo-e art?
A) Utagawa Hiroshige
B) Suzuki Harunobu
C) Okumura Masanobu
D) Hishikawa Moronobu
- 19. How many woodblocks were typically used for full-color ukiyo-e prints by the 1760s?
A) Ten or more blocks
B) Five blocks
C) One block
D) Two blocks
- 20. What profession did Hokusai's father have?
A) Painter
B) Bookshop owner
C) Engraver
D) Shogun mirror-maker
- 21. At what age was Hokusai named Tokitarō?
A) 12
B) 16
C) 6
D) 14
- 22. Which artist did Hokusai become an apprentice to at eighteen?
A) Calza
B) Daruma
C) Katsukawa Shunshō
D) Hokusai himself
- 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) 50
B) 73
C) 60
D) 80
- 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 stop drawing completely.
C) He would start using only black ink.
D) He would become famous worldwide.
- 26. How many volumes of sketches did Hokusai publish as manga?
A) 15
B) 5
C) 10
D) 20
- 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) 30%
B) 40%
C) 50%
D) 20%
- 29. What term describes the influence of Japanese art on Western culture?
A) Japonisme
B) Impressionism
C) Art Nouveau
D) Orientalism
- 30. Which artist praised The Great Wave off Kanagawa for its quality of drawing and use of line?
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Vincent van Gogh
C) Claude Monet
D) Paul Cézanne
- 31. Which artist made the first attempts to imitate the use of Western perspective in Japanese art?
A) Okumura Masanobu
B) Hiroshige
C) Utagawa Toyoharu
D) Shiba Kōkan
- 32. What does the struggle between man and nature in The Great Wave off Kanagawa reference?
A) Christian theology.
B) Greek mythology.
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 calming influence
B) A sense of serenity
C) An uplifting feeling
D) A 'terrifying' emotional impact
- 34. When was the episode about 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' on BBC Radio released?
A) 2004
B) 1995
C) 2017
D) 4 September 2010
- 35. What do the cumulonimbus clouds in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' typically indicate?
A) Rainy season
B) A storm
C) Clear weather
D) Sunny day
- 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) Hiroshige
C) Nishimuraya Yohachi
D) Shiba Kōkan
- 38. From whom did the Bibliothèque nationale de France acquire its copy of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Henry Osborne Havemeyer's collection
B) Samuel Bing's collection
C) Kazuo Okada
D) Raymond Koechlin's bequest
- 39. How many men are represented in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Thirty men
B) Twenty-two men
C) Fifty men
D) Forty men
- 40. Which genre of Western artists was particularly inspired by Japanese woodblock prints?
A) The Realists
B) The Impressionists
C) The Cubists
D) The Surrealists
- 41. How many relief crew members are at the front of each boat in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Three relief crew members
B) Four relief crew members
C) Two relief crew members
D) One relief crew member
- 42. Which city has the greatest number of surviving first edition prints of The Great Wave off Kanagawa in its museums?
A) American cities
B) Tokyo
C) Paris
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) 1995
B) 2004
C) 2017
D) 2022
- 45. What was Prussian blue known as in Japanese during Hokusai's time?
A) Kyoto blue
B) Berlin ai (ベルリン藍)
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) 2024
C) 2017
D) 1995
- 47. 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) British Museum
D) Wall Street Journal
- 48. What year did Hokusai arrive at the final design for 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) 1833
B) 1826
C) 1812
D) Late 1831
- 49. How many rowers are visible on each boat in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Six rowers
B) Eight rowers
C) Ten rowers
D) Twelve rowers
- 50. Through which city did Western perspective arrive in Japan?
A) Nagasaki
B) Kyoto
C) Tokyo
D) Osaka
- 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) The Sea off Satta in Suruga Province
D) Uprisings
- 52. How many views are included in The Great Wave off Kanagawa series?
A) Twenty-four
B) Thirty-six
C) Forty-two
D) Fifty
- 53. What event marked Japan's end of isolation and opened it to Western imports?
A) The signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa
B) The 1868 Meiji Restoration
C) The opening of Yokohama port
D) The arrival of Commodore Perry
- 54. In which direction are the boats facing in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) East towards Tokyo
B) North towards Edo
C) West towards Mount Fuji
D) South, likely to Sagami Bay
- 55. Where is the artist's signature located in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) In the center of the wave
B) In the upper left-hand corner
C) At the bottom right-hand corner
D) On one of the boats
- 56. Who was one of the first artists heavily influenced by Hokusai's work, particularly The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Vincent van Gogh
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Claude Monet
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 face towards Mount Fuji.
C) The slender, tapering bow faces left, implying a right-to-left interpretation.
D) The boats are oriented towards the viewer.
- 58. Which institution produced a documentary film about Hokusai in 2017 that included a replica of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Wall Street Journal
B) National Gallery of Victoria
C) British Museum
D) BBC
- 59. Which Indigenous Australian artist used 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' as the basis for his 1992 painting?
A) Lin Onus
B) Kozyndan
C) Gustave-Henri Jossot
D) Hiroshige
- 60. What dominates the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) The boats
B) The fishermen
C) The sea
D) Mount Fuji
- 61. What type of boats are depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Oshiokuri-bune
B) Warships
C) Fishing boats
D) Cargo ships
- 62. What style is characterized by predominantly-blue prints in the series?
A) Ukiyo-e
B) Sumi-e
C) Aizuri-e
D) Yamato-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) Microsoft
B) Apple Inc.
C) Samsung
D) Google
- 65. Who described 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' as possibly the most reproduced image in art history?
A) Ellen Gamerman
B) Wayne Crothers
C) Hiroshige
D) Gustave-Henri Jossot
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