 - 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) Sculpture
B) Woodblock print
C) Watercolor painting
D) Oil painting
- 4. What is the season depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Autumn
B) Spring
C) Summer
D) Winter
- 5. What type of wave is depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Ripple
B) Tide
C) Whirlpool
D) Tsunami
- 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) Kumano kodo
B) Sakura no hana
C) Himeji Castle
D) Kanagawa oki nami ura
- 8. Which mountain is visible in the background of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Mount Rainier
B) Mount Everest
C) Mount Kilimanjaro
D) Mount Fuji
- 9. What art movement is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' often associated with?
A) Abstract Expressionism
B) Impressionism
C) Ukiyo-e
D) Cubism
- 10. During which period was The Great Wave off Kanagawa created?
A) Edo period
B) Meiji period
C) Showa period
D) Taisho period
- 11. What color revolutionized Japanese prints in The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Ultramarine
B) Cobalt blue
C) Viridian green
D) Prussian blue
- 12. What European development influenced the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Pointillism
B) Cubism
C) Impressionism
D) Graphical perspective
- 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) Salvador Dalí
B) Claude Monet
C) Rembrandt
D) Pablo Picasso
- 15. What is depicted in the center of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) A stormy sky with no visible water
B) A large, cresting wave forming a spiral over boats
C) Mount Fuji without any boats
D) A calm sea with small waves
- 16. Which class benefited from Edo's economic growth and patronized ukiyo-e art?
A) Peasant class
B) Chōnin class
C) Samurai class
D) Nobility class
- 17. What does the term 'ukiyo' describe in ukiyo-e art?
A) Traditional Japanese architecture
B) Feudal warfare
C) A hedonistic lifestyle
D) Zen Buddhism practices
- 18. Who introduced color prints to ukiyo-e art?
A) Okumura Masanobu
B) Utagawa Hiroshige
C) Hishikawa Moronobu
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) Shogun mirror-maker
B) Bookshop owner
C) Painter
D) Engraver
- 21. At what age was Hokusai named Tokitarō?
A) 14
B) 6
C) 12
D) 16
- 22. Which artist did Hokusai become an apprentice to at eighteen?
A) Daruma
B) Calza
C) Hokusai himself
D) Katsukawa Shunshō
- 23. What was the size of Hokusai's drawing for a festival in Tokyo?
A) 300-square-centimetre
B) 240-square-metre
C) 50-square-yard
D) 100-square-foot
- 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) He would start using only black ink.
B) He would become famous worldwide.
C) Each dot, each line will possess a life of its own.
D) He would stop drawing completely.
- 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) Auguste Rodin
C) Constantin Brâncuși
D) Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
- 28. By what percentage did Hokusai reduce the vertical scale of the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) 20%
B) 50%
C) 40%
D) 30%
- 29. What term describes the influence of Japanese art on Western culture?
A) Japonisme
B) Orientalism
C) Impressionism
D) Art Nouveau
- 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) Hiroshige
B) Utagawa Toyoharu
C) Okumura Masanobu
D) Shiba Kōkan
- 32. What does the struggle between man and nature in The Great Wave off Kanagawa reference?
A) Roman history.
B) Christian theology.
C) Greek mythology.
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 'terrifying' emotional impact
C) An uplifting feeling
D) A sense of serenity
- 34. When was the episode about 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' on BBC Radio released?
A) 2017
B) 4 September 2010
C) 2004
D) 1995
- 35. What do the cumulonimbus clouds in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' typically indicate?
A) A storm
B) Rainy season
C) Sunny day
D) Clear weather
- 36. When was Prussian blue first imported to Japan from Holland?
A) 1830
B) 1820
C) 1810
D) 1840
- 37. Which artist was an indirect student of Utagawa Toyoharu?
A) Hiroshige
B) Nishimuraya Yohachi
C) Shiba Kōkan
D) Okumura Masanobu
- 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) Raymond Koechlin's bequest
D) Henry Osborne Havemeyer's collection
- 39. How many men are represented in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Forty men
B) Thirty men
C) Fifty men
D) Twenty-two men
- 40. Which genre of Western artists was particularly inspired by Japanese woodblock prints?
A) The Impressionists
B) The Cubists
C) The Surrealists
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) Two relief crew members
C) Four 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) Tokyo
B) London
C) Paris
D) American cities
- 43. 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
- 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) 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) 1995
B) 2017
C) 2004
D) 2024
- 47. Which publication's writer called 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' the most famous artwork in Japanese history?
A) British Museum
B) National Gallery of Victoria
C) Wall Street Journal
D) BBC
- 48. What year did Hokusai arrive at the final design for 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) 1826
B) 1812
C) Late 1831
D) 1833
- 49. How many rowers are visible on each boat in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Ten rowers
B) Eight rowers
C) Six rowers
D) Twelve rowers
- 50. Through which city did Western perspective arrive in Japan?
A) Kyoto
B) Tokyo
C) Osaka
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) Uprisings
C) Michael and I are just slipping down to the pub for a minute
D) The Sea off Satta in Suruga Province
- 52. How many views are included in The Great Wave off Kanagawa series?
A) Forty-two
B) Fifty
C) Twenty-four
D) Thirty-six
- 53. What event marked Japan's end of isolation and opened it to Western imports?
A) The opening of Yokohama port
B) The 1868 Meiji Restoration
C) The signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa
D) The arrival of Commodore Perry
- 54. In which direction are the boats facing in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) West towards Mount Fuji
B) South, likely to Sagami Bay
C) East towards Tokyo
D) North towards Edo
- 55. Where is the artist's signature located in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) In the upper left-hand corner
B) At the bottom right-hand corner
C) In the center of the wave
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) Henri Rivière
B) Vincent van Gogh
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 are oriented towards the viewer.
B) The boats face towards Mount Fuji.
C) The boats face away from the wave.
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) 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) Hiroshige
B) Gustave-Henri Jossot
C) Kozyndan
D) Lin Onus
- 60. What dominates the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) The fishermen
B) Mount Fuji
C) The boats
D) The sea
- 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) Aizuri-e
B) Yamato-e
C) Sumi-e
D) Ukiyo-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) Hokusai: The Great Wave
C) A History of the World in 100 Objects
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) Apple Inc.
B) Samsung
C) Google
D) Microsoft
- 65. Who described 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' as possibly the most reproduced image in art history?
A) Wayne Crothers
B) Ellen Gamerman
C) Gustave-Henri Jossot
D) Hiroshige
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