 - 1. Who is the artist of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Katsushika Hokusai
B) Vincent van Gogh
C) Leonardo da Vinci
D) Pablo Picasso
- 2. In which century was 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' created?
A) 19th century
B) 20th century
C) 18th century
D) 17th century
- 3. What type of print is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Watercolor painting
B) Oil painting
C) Sculpture
D) Woodblock print
- 4. What is the season depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Winter
B) Spring
C) Autumn
D) Summer
- 5. What type of wave is depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Whirlpool
B) Tsunami
C) Ripple
D) Tide
- 6. What is the shape of the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Angular
B) Straight
C) Wavy
D) Curved
- 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 Rainier
B) Mount Kilimanjaro
C) Mount Fuji
D) Mount Everest
- 9. What art movement is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' often associated with?
A) Impressionism
B) Ukiyo-e
C) Cubism
D) Abstract Expressionism
- 10. During which period was The Great Wave off Kanagawa created?
A) Taisho period
B) Edo period
C) Meiji period
D) Showa period
- 11. What color revolutionized Japanese prints in The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Prussian blue
B) Cobalt blue
C) Viridian green
D) Ultramarine
- 12. What European development influenced the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Graphical perspective
B) Pointillism
C) Cubism
D) Impressionism
- 13. How many copies of The Great Wave off Kanagawa are thought to have survived into the 21st century?
A) Less than 50
B) Exactly 250
C) Over 500
D) About 100
- 14. Which Western artist was inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Salvador Dalí
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Claude Monet
D) Rembrandt
- 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 large, cresting wave forming a spiral over boats
D) A calm sea with small waves
- 16. Which class benefited from Edo's economic growth and patronized ukiyo-e art?
A) Samurai class
B) Nobility class
C) Chōnin class
D) Peasant class
- 17. What does the term 'ukiyo' describe in ukiyo-e art?
A) Traditional Japanese architecture
B) A hedonistic lifestyle
C) Zen Buddhism practices
D) Feudal warfare
- 18. Who introduced color prints to ukiyo-e art?
A) Hishikawa Moronobu
B) Suzuki Harunobu
C) Utagawa Hiroshige
D) Okumura Masanobu
- 19. How many woodblocks were typically used for full-color ukiyo-e prints by the 1760s?
A) One block
B) Two blocks
C) Ten or more blocks
D) Five blocks
- 20. What profession did Hokusai's father have?
A) Painter
B) Engraver
C) Bookshop owner
D) Shogun mirror-maker
- 21. At what age was Hokusai named Tokitarō?
A) 6
B) 12
C) 16
D) 14
- 22. Which artist did Hokusai become an apprentice to at eighteen?
A) Katsukawa Shunshō
B) Daruma
C) Calza
D) Hokusai himself
- 23. What was the size of Hokusai's drawing for a festival in Tokyo?
A) 300-square-centimetre
B) 240-square-metre
C) 100-square-foot
D) 50-square-yard
- 24. At what age did Hokusai claim to have partly understood the structure of animals, birds, insects, and fishes?
A) 60
B) 50
C) 80
D) 73
- 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 stop drawing completely.
D) He would start using only black ink.
- 26. How many volumes of sketches did Hokusai publish as manga?
A) 5
B) 20
C) 10
D) 15
- 27. Which French sculptor created La Vague, inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Auguste Rodin
B) Constantin Brâncuși
C) Camille Claudel
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) Art Nouveau
B) Japonisme
C) Orientalism
D) Impressionism
- 30. Which artist praised The Great Wave off Kanagawa for its quality of drawing and use of line?
A) Paul Cézanne
B) Claude Monet
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Vincent van Gogh
- 31. Which artist made the first attempts to imitate the use of Western perspective in Japanese art?
A) Shiba Kōkan
B) Utagawa Toyoharu
C) Okumura Masanobu
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) Christian theology.
C) Roman history.
D) Greek mythology.
- 33. What emotional impact did Vincent van Gogh describe The Great Wave off Kanagawa as having?
A) An uplifting feeling
B) A 'terrifying' emotional impact
C) A calming influence
D) A sense of serenity
- 34. When was the episode about 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' on BBC Radio released?
A) 2004
B) 4 September 2010
C) 1995
D) 2017
- 35. What do the cumulonimbus clouds in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' typically indicate?
A) Sunny day
B) Rainy season
C) Clear weather
D) A storm
- 36. When was Prussian blue first imported to Japan from Holland?
A) 1820
B) 1810
C) 1830
D) 1840
- 37. Which artist was an indirect student of Utagawa Toyoharu?
A) Nishimuraya Yohachi
B) Shiba Kōkan
C) Okumura Masanobu
D) Hiroshige
- 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) Raymond Koechlin's bequest
C) Kazuo Okada
D) Samuel Bing's collection
- 39. How many men are represented in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Twenty-two men
B) Fifty men
C) Forty men
D) Thirty 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) Two relief crew members
B) One relief crew member
C) Three relief crew members
D) Four 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) American cities
B) Paris
C) London
D) Tokyo
- 43. How many original impressions of the first edition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa are known to survive worldwide?
A) 35
B) 113
C) 1,000
D) 8,000
- 44. In which year did the Bank of Japan announce the inclusion of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' in redesigned banknotes?
A) 2004
B) 2022
C) 2017
D) 1995
- 45. What was Prussian blue known as in Japanese during Hokusai's time?
A) Tokyo indigo
B) Kyoto blue
C) Berlin ai (ベルリン藍)
D) Osaka pigment
- 46. When are the new Japanese banknotes featuring 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' expected to begin circulation?
A) 2017
B) 2024
C) 2004
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) Late 1831
B) 1833
C) 1826
D) 1812
- 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) Tokyo
B) Osaka
C) Nagasaki
D) Kyoto
- 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) The Sea off Satta in Suruga Province
D) Michael and I are just slipping down to the pub for a minute
- 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 opening of Yokohama port
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) 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 upper left-hand corner
B) At the bottom right-hand corner
C) On one of the boats
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) Claude Monet
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Henri Rivière
D) Vincent van Gogh
- 57. 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 are oriented towards the viewer.
C) The boats face away from the wave.
D) The boats face towards Mount Fuji.
- 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) BBC
C) National Gallery of Victoria
D) British Museum
- 59. Which Indigenous Australian artist used 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' as the basis for his 1992 painting?
A) Gustave-Henri Jossot
B) Lin Onus
C) Hiroshige
D) Kozyndan
- 60. What dominates the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) The fishermen
B) The sea
C) The boats
D) Mount Fuji
- 61. What type of boats are depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Oshiokuri-bune
B) Fishing boats
C) Cargo ships
D) Warships
- 62. What style is characterized by predominantly-blue prints in the series?
A) Ukiyo-e
B) Yamato-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) Hokusai: The Great Wave
B) La menace suspendue: La Vague
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) Samsung
B) Google
C) Microsoft
D) Apple Inc.
- 65. Who described 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' as possibly the most reproduced image in art history?
A) Ellen Gamerman
B) Gustave-Henri Jossot
C) Wayne Crothers
D) Hiroshige
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