 - 1. Who is the artist of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Vincent van Gogh
B) Katsushika Hokusai
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Leonardo da Vinci
- 2. In which century was 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' created?
A) 17th century
B) 18th century
C) 19th century
D) 20th century
- 3. What type of print is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Oil painting
B) Woodblock print
C) Sculpture
D) Watercolor painting
- 4. What is the season depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Summer
B) Winter
C) Autumn
D) Spring
- 5. What type of wave is depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Tide
B) Tsunami
C) Ripple
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) Kumano kodo
B) Kanagawa oki nami ura
C) Sakura no hana
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 Rainier
D) Mount Fuji
- 9. What art movement is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' often associated with?
A) Cubism
B) Impressionism
C) Ukiyo-e
D) Abstract Expressionism
- 10. During which period was The Great Wave off Kanagawa created?
A) Taisho period
B) Meiji period
C) Showa period
D) Edo period
- 11. What color revolutionized Japanese prints in The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Viridian green
B) Cobalt blue
C) Ultramarine
D) Prussian blue
- 12. What European development influenced the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Pointillism
B) Impressionism
C) Cubism
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) Less than 50
C) Over 500
D) About 100
- 14. Which Western artist was inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Rembrandt
C) Salvador Dalí
D) Claude Monet
- 15. What is depicted in the center of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) A stormy sky with no visible water
B) Mount Fuji without any boats
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) Samurai class
B) Chōnin class
C) Peasant class
D) Nobility class
- 17. What does the term 'ukiyo' describe in ukiyo-e art?
A) A hedonistic lifestyle
B) Traditional Japanese architecture
C) Zen Buddhism practices
D) Feudal warfare
- 18. Who introduced color prints to ukiyo-e art?
A) Hishikawa Moronobu
B) Okumura Masanobu
C) Suzuki Harunobu
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) Five blocks
D) Ten or more blocks
- 20. What profession did Hokusai's father have?
A) Painter
B) Shogun mirror-maker
C) Engraver
D) Bookshop owner
- 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) Daruma
B) Calza
C) Hokusai himself
D) Katsukawa Shunshō
- 23. What was the size of Hokusai's drawing for a festival in Tokyo?
A) 240-square-metre
B) 100-square-foot
C) 300-square-centimetre
D) 50-square-yard
- 24. At what age did Hokusai claim to have partly understood the structure of animals, birds, insects, and fishes?
A) 73
B) 60
C) 50
D) 80
- 25. What did Hokusai predict about his artistic skills at age one hundred and ten?
A) He would become famous worldwide.
B) He would start using only black ink.
C) He would stop drawing completely.
D) Each dot, each line will possess a life of its own.
- 26. How many volumes of sketches did Hokusai publish as manga?
A) 20
B) 15
C) 5
D) 10
- 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) Clear weather
C) A storm
D) Rainy season
- 29. What type of boats are depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Oshiokuri-bune
B) Warships
C) Fishing boats
D) Cargo ships
- 30. In which direction are the boats facing in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) North towards Edo
B) West towards Mount Fuji
C) East towards Tokyo
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) Twelve rowers
C) Eight rowers
D) Ten rowers
- 32. How many relief crew members are at the front of each boat in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) One relief crew member
B) Four relief crew members
C) Two relief crew members
D) Three relief crew members
- 33. How many men are represented in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Fifty men
B) Thirty 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) 30%
B) 40%
C) 20%
D) 50%
- 35. What dominates the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) The boats
B) The sea
C) The fishermen
D) Mount Fuji
- 36. How many views are included in The Great Wave off Kanagawa series?
A) Thirty-six
B) Fifty
C) Twenty-four
D) Forty-two
- 37. What does the struggle between man and nature in The Great Wave off Kanagawa reference?
A) Buddhist philosophy and Shinto beliefs.
B) Christian theology.
C) Roman history.
D) Greek mythology.
- 38. 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.
- 39. What year did Hokusai arrive at the final design for 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) 1826
B) 1833
C) 1812
D) Late 1831
- 40. Through which city did Western perspective arrive in Japan?
A) Osaka
B) Nagasaki
C) Tokyo
D) Kyoto
- 41. Which artist made the first attempts to imitate the use of Western perspective in Japanese art?
A) Utagawa Toyoharu
B) Hiroshige
C) Okumura Masanobu
D) Shiba Kōkan
- 42. When was Prussian blue first imported to Japan from Holland?
A) 1820
B) 1840
C) 1830
D) 1810
- 43. What was Prussian blue known as in Japanese during Hokusai's time?
A) Osaka pigment
B) Tokyo indigo
C) Berlin ai (ベルリン藍)
D) Kyoto blue
- 44. Which artist was an indirect student of Utagawa Toyoharu?
A) Hiroshige
B) Nishimuraya Yohachi
C) Shiba Kōkan
D) Okumura Masanobu
- 45. What style is characterized by predominantly-blue prints in the series?
A) Sumi-e
B) Ukiyo-e
C) Aizuri-e
D) Yamato-e
- 46. How many original impressions of the first edition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa are known to survive worldwide?
A) 1,000
B) 35
C) 8,000
D) 113
- 47. Which city has the greatest number of surviving first edition prints of The Great Wave off Kanagawa in its museums?
A) London
B) American cities
C) Tokyo
D) Paris
- 48. From whom did the Bibliothèque nationale de France acquire its copy of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Kazuo Okada
B) Raymond Koechlin's bequest
C) Henry Osborne Havemeyer's collection
D) Samuel Bing's collection
- 49. What event marked Japan's end of isolation and opened it to Western imports?
A) The signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa
B) The arrival of Commodore Perry
C) The 1868 Meiji Restoration
D) The opening of Yokohama port
- 50. What term describes the influence of Japanese art on Western culture?
A) Orientalism
B) Japonisme
C) Art Nouveau
D) Impressionism
- 51. Which genre of Western artists was particularly inspired by Japanese woodblock prints?
A) The Cubists
B) The Surrealists
C) The Realists
D) The Impressionists
- 52. Who was one of the first artists heavily influenced by Hokusai's work, particularly The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Vincent van Gogh
C) Claude Monet
D) Henri Rivière
- 53. Which artist praised The Great Wave off Kanagawa for its quality of drawing and use of line?
A) Paul Cézanne
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Vincent van Gogh
D) Claude Monet
- 54. What emotional impact did Vincent van Gogh describe The Great Wave off Kanagawa as having?
A) A 'terrifying' emotional impact
B) A calming influence
C) A sense of serenity
D) An uplifting feeling
- 55. Which French sculptor created La Vague, inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
B) Camille Claudel
C) Auguste Rodin
D) Constantin Brâncuși
- 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) Wall Street Journal
B) British Museum
C) National Gallery of Victoria
D) BBC
- 58. Which Indigenous Australian artist used 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' as the basis for his 1992 painting?
A) Hiroshige
B) Lin Onus
C) Kozyndan
D) Gustave-Henri Jossot
- 59. 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
- 60. Which company's emoji character for a water wave resembles the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Samsung
B) Microsoft
C) Google
D) Apple Inc.
- 61. In which year did the Bank of Japan announce the inclusion of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' in redesigned banknotes?
A) 1995
B) 2022
C) 2004
D) 2017
- 62. When are the new Japanese banknotes featuring 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' expected to begin circulation?
A) 2017
B) 2024
C) 1995
D) 2004
- 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) The Private Life of a Masterpiece
C) Hokusai: The Great Wave
D) La menace suspendue: La Vague
- 64. When was the episode about 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' on BBC Radio released?
A) 2017
B) 2004
C) 4 September 2010
D) 1995
- 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) Wall Street Journal
D) British Museum
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