- 1. Who is the artist of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Vincent van Gogh
D) Katsushika Hokusai
- 2. In which century was 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' created?
A) 20th century
B) 19th century
C) 17th century
D) 18th century
- 3. What type of print is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Sculpture
B) Watercolor painting
C) Oil painting
D) Woodblock print
- 4. What is the season depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Spring
B) Autumn
C) Winter
D) Summer
- 5. What type of wave is depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Whirlpool
B) Ripple
C) Tide
D) Tsunami
- 6. What is the shape of the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Angular
B) Wavy
C) Curved
D) Straight
- 7. What is the traditional Japanese name of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Sakura no hana
B) Kumano kodo
C) Kanagawa oki nami ura
D) Himeji Castle
- 8. Which mountain is visible in the background of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Mount Kilimanjaro
B) Mount Fuji
C) Mount Everest
D) Mount Rainier
- 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) Showa period
B) Edo period
C) Meiji period
D) Taisho period
- 11. What color revolutionized Japanese prints in The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Viridian green
B) Cobalt blue
C) Prussian blue
D) Ultramarine
- 12. What European development influenced the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Pointillism
B) Impressionism
C) Graphical perspective
D) Cubism
- 13. How many copies of The Great Wave off Kanagawa are thought to have survived into the 21st century?
A) Exactly 250
B) About 100
C) Over 500
D) Less than 50
- 14. Which Western artist was inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Rembrandt
C) Claude Monet
D) Salvador Dalí
- 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 calm sea with small waves
D) A stormy sky with no visible water
- 16. Which class benefited from Edo's economic growth and patronized ukiyo-e art?
A) Chōnin class
B) Samurai class
C) Nobility class
D) Peasant class
- 17. What does the term 'ukiyo' describe in ukiyo-e art?
A) Traditional Japanese architecture
B) Feudal warfare
C) Zen Buddhism practices
D) A hedonistic lifestyle
- 18. Who introduced color prints to ukiyo-e art?
A) Okumura Masanobu
B) Utagawa Hiroshige
C) Suzuki Harunobu
D) Hishikawa Moronobu
- 19. How many woodblocks were typically used for full-color ukiyo-e prints by the 1760s?
A) One block
B) Five blocks
C) Two blocks
D) Ten or more 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) 16
B) 6
C) 12
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) 300-square-centimetre
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) 60
B) 50
C) 73
D) 80
- 25. What did Hokusai predict about his artistic skills at age one hundred and ten?
A) He would stop drawing completely.
B) Each dot, each line will possess a life of its own.
C) He would become famous worldwide.
D) He would start using only black ink.
- 26. How many volumes of sketches did Hokusai publish as manga?
A) 10
B) 15
C) 20
D) 5
- 27. Which French sculptor created La Vague, inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Camille Claudel
B) Constantin Brâncuși
C) Auguste Rodin
D) Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
- 28. By what percentage did Hokusai reduce the vertical scale of the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) 50%
B) 30%
C) 40%
D) 20%
- 29. What term describes the influence of Japanese art on Western culture?
A) Orientalism
B) Art Nouveau
C) Japonisme
D) Impressionism
- 30. 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
- 31. Which artist made the first attempts to imitate the use of Western perspective in Japanese art?
A) Hiroshige
B) Shiba Kōkan
C) Okumura Masanobu
D) Utagawa Toyoharu
- 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) Greek mythology.
D) Roman history.
- 33. What emotional impact did Vincent van Gogh describe The Great Wave off Kanagawa as having?
A) A 'terrifying' emotional impact
B) A sense of serenity
C) An uplifting feeling
D) A calming influence
- 34. When was the episode about 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' on BBC Radio released?
A) 1995
B) 2017
C) 2004
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) 1830
B) 1810
C) 1840
D) 1820
- 37. Which artist was an indirect student of Utagawa Toyoharu?
A) Okumura Masanobu
B) Nishimuraya Yohachi
C) Hiroshige
D) Shiba Kōkan
- 38. From whom did the Bibliothèque nationale de France acquire its copy of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Raymond Koechlin's bequest
B) Samuel Bing's collection
C) Kazuo Okada
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) Twenty-two men
D) Fifty men
- 40. Which genre of Western artists was particularly inspired by Japanese woodblock prints?
A) The Cubists
B) The Surrealists
C) The Impressionists
D) The Realists
- 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) One relief crew member
D) Two 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) Paris
C) American cities
D) London
- 43. How many original impressions of the first edition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa are known to survive worldwide?
A) 1,000
B) 8,000
C) 113
D) 35
- 44. In which year did the Bank of Japan announce the inclusion of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' in redesigned banknotes?
A) 2022
B) 2004
C) 1995
D) 2017
- 45. What was Prussian blue known as in Japanese during Hokusai's time?
A) Berlin ai (ベルリン藍)
B) Tokyo indigo
C) Osaka pigment
D) Kyoto blue
- 46. When are the new Japanese banknotes featuring 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' expected to begin circulation?
A) 2017
B) 2004
C) 1995
D) 2024
- 47. Which publication's writer called 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' the most famous artwork in Japanese history?
A) British Museum
B) Wall Street Journal
C) BBC
D) National Gallery of Victoria
- 48. What year did Hokusai arrive at the final design for 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) 1826
B) 1812
C) 1833
D) Late 1831
- 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) Tokyo
B) Osaka
C) Kyoto
D) Nagasaki
- 51. What is the name of the work by Japanese-American artist Kozyndan based on 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Uprisings
B) La menace suspendue: La Vague
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) Fifty
B) Thirty-six
C) Twenty-four
D) Forty-two
- 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 arrival of Commodore Perry
D) The opening of Yokohama port
- 54. In which direction are the boats facing in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) West towards Mount Fuji
B) East towards Tokyo
C) North towards Edo
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) At the bottom right-hand corner
C) On one of the boats
D) In the upper left-hand corner
- 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) Claude Monet
C) Henri Rivière
D) Pablo Picasso
- 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 face away from the wave.
C) The boats are oriented towards the viewer.
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) 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) Hiroshige
C) Kozyndan
D) Gustave-Henri Jossot
- 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) Cargo ships
B) Oshiokuri-bune
C) Warships
D) Fishing boats
- 62. What style is characterized by predominantly-blue prints in the series?
A) Sumi-e
B) Yamato-e
C) Aizuri-e
D) Ukiyo-e
- 63. What is the title of the 30-minute French-language documentary about 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) The Private Life of a Masterpiece
B) La menace suspendue: La Vague
C) A History of the World in 100 Objects
D) Hokusai: The Great Wave
- 64. Which company's emoji character for a water wave resembles the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Samsung
B) Apple Inc.
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) Hiroshige
D) Gustave-Henri Jossot
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