 - 1. Who is the artist of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Katsushika Hokusai
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Vincent van Gogh
D) Pablo Picasso
- 2. In which century was 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' created?
A) 18th century
B) 17th century
C) 20th century
D) 19th century
- 3. What type of print is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Oil painting
B) Watercolor painting
C) Woodblock print
D) Sculpture
- 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) Tide
D) Whirlpool
- 6. What is the shape of the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Wavy
B) Straight
C) Curved
D) Angular
- 7. What is the traditional Japanese name of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Himeji Castle
B) Kanagawa oki nami ura
C) Sakura no hana
D) Kumano kodo
- 8. Which mountain is visible in the background of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Mount Rainier
B) Mount Fuji
C) Mount Everest
D) Mount Kilimanjaro
- 9. What art movement is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' often associated with?
A) Cubism
B) Abstract Expressionism
C) Ukiyo-e
D) Impressionism
- 10. During which period was The Great Wave off Kanagawa created?
A) Taisho period
B) Edo period
C) Showa period
D) Meiji period
- 11. What color revolutionized Japanese prints in The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Viridian green
B) Prussian blue
C) Cobalt blue
D) Ultramarine
- 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) 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) Pablo Picasso
B) Salvador Dalí
C) Rembrandt
D) Claude Monet
- 15. What is depicted in the center of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) A large, cresting wave forming a spiral over boats
B) Mount Fuji without any boats
C) A stormy sky with no visible water
D) A calm sea with small waves
- 16. Which class benefited from Edo's economic growth and patronized ukiyo-e art?
A) Chōnin class
B) Peasant class
C) Nobility class
D) Samurai class
- 17. What does the term 'ukiyo' describe in ukiyo-e art?
A) Zen Buddhism practices
B) Feudal warfare
C) A hedonistic lifestyle
D) Traditional Japanese architecture
- 18. Who introduced color prints to ukiyo-e art?
A) Hishikawa Moronobu
B) Suzuki Harunobu
C) Okumura Masanobu
D) Utagawa Hiroshige
- 19. How many woodblocks were typically used for full-color ukiyo-e prints by the 1760s?
A) Two blocks
B) One block
C) Ten or more blocks
D) Five 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) 14
B) 6
C) 16
D) 12
- 22. Which artist did Hokusai become an apprentice to at eighteen?
A) Katsukawa Shunshō
B) Hokusai himself
C) Calza
D) Daruma
- 23. What was the size of Hokusai's drawing for a festival in Tokyo?
A) 240-square-metre
B) 50-square-yard
C) 300-square-centimetre
D) 100-square-foot
- 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 stop drawing completely.
B) He would start using only black ink.
C) Each dot, each line will possess a life of its own.
D) He would become famous worldwide.
- 26. How many volumes of sketches did Hokusai publish as manga?
A) 20
B) 10
C) 5
D) 15
- 27. Which French sculptor created La Vague, inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
B) Auguste Rodin
C) Constantin Brâncuși
D) Camille Claudel
- 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) Impressionism
B) Orientalism
C) Japonisme
D) Art Nouveau
- 30. Which artist praised The Great Wave off Kanagawa for its quality of drawing and use of line?
A) Vincent van Gogh
B) Pablo Picasso
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) Utagawa Toyoharu
C) Shiba Kōkan
D) Hiroshige
- 32. 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) Christian theology.
D) Roman history.
- 33. What emotional impact did Vincent van Gogh describe The Great Wave off Kanagawa as having?
A) A sense of serenity
B) A 'terrifying' emotional impact
C) A calming influence
D) An uplifting feeling
- 34. When was the episode about 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' on BBC Radio released?
A) 2017
B) 4 September 2010
C) 1995
D) 2004
- 35. What do the cumulonimbus clouds in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' typically indicate?
A) Rainy season
B) Sunny day
C) A storm
D) Clear weather
- 36. When was Prussian blue first imported to Japan from Holland?
A) 1820
B) 1840
C) 1830
D) 1810
- 37. Which artist was an indirect student of Utagawa Toyoharu?
A) Shiba Kōkan
B) Hiroshige
C) Okumura Masanobu
D) Nishimuraya Yohachi
- 38. From whom did the Bibliothèque nationale de France acquire its copy of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Raymond Koechlin's bequest
B) Henry Osborne Havemeyer's collection
C) Kazuo Okada
D) Samuel Bing's collection
- 39. How many men are represented in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Fifty men
B) Forty men
C) Thirty 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 Realists
D) The Impressionists
- 41. How many relief crew members are at the front of each boat in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Two relief crew members
B) Three relief crew members
C) Four 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) 113
B) 35
C) 8,000
D) 1,000
- 44. In which year did the Bank of Japan announce the inclusion of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' in redesigned banknotes?
A) 2017
B) 2022
C) 1995
D) 2004
- 45. What was Prussian blue known as in Japanese during Hokusai's time?
A) Osaka pigment
B) Kyoto blue
C) Tokyo indigo
D) Berlin ai (ベルリン藍)
- 46. When are the new Japanese banknotes featuring 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' expected to begin circulation?
A) 2004
B) 1995
C) 2017
D) 2024
- 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) Wall Street Journal
D) British Museum
- 48. What year did Hokusai arrive at the final design for 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) 1812
B) Late 1831
C) 1833
D) 1826
- 49. How many rowers are visible on each boat in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Twelve rowers
B) Eight rowers
C) Six rowers
D) Ten rowers
- 50. Through which city did Western perspective arrive in Japan?
A) Kyoto
B) Tokyo
C) Nagasaki
D) Osaka
- 51. What is the name of the work by Japanese-American artist Kozyndan based on 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Michael and I are just slipping down to the pub for a minute
B) La menace suspendue: La Vague
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) Fifty
C) Thirty-six
D) Forty-two
- 53. What event marked Japan's end of isolation and opened it to Western imports?
A) The 1868 Meiji Restoration
B) The arrival of Commodore Perry
C) The opening of Yokohama port
D) The signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa
- 54. In which direction are the boats facing in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) West towards Mount Fuji
B) North towards Edo
C) South, likely to Sagami Bay
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) Vincent van Gogh
B) Henri Rivière
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Claude Monet
- 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 slender, tapering bow faces left, implying a right-to-left interpretation.
C) The boats face towards Mount Fuji.
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) National Gallery of Victoria
B) Wall Street Journal
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) Gustave-Henri Jossot
C) Hiroshige
D) Kozyndan
- 60. What dominates the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) The fishermen
B) The boats
C) The sea
D) Mount Fuji
- 61. What type of boats are depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Oshiokuri-bune
B) Cargo ships
C) Fishing boats
D) Warships
- 62. What style is characterized by predominantly-blue prints in the series?
A) Yamato-e
B) Ukiyo-e
C) Sumi-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) The Private Life of a Masterpiece
D) La menace suspendue: La Vague
- 64. Which company's emoji character for a water wave resembles the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Samsung
B) Google
C) Apple Inc.
D) Microsoft
- 65. 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
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