- 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) 18th century
B) 19th century
C) 20th century
D) 17th century
- 3. What type of print is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Oil painting
B) Sculpture
C) Woodblock print
D) Watercolor painting
- 4. What is the season depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Spring
B) Autumn
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) Wavy
B) Straight
C) Angular
D) Curved
- 7. What is the traditional Japanese name of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Himeji Castle
B) Kumano kodo
C) Sakura no hana
D) Kanagawa oki nami ura
- 8. Which mountain is visible in the background of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Mount Kilimanjaro
B) Mount Rainier
C) Mount Everest
D) Mount Fuji
- 9. What art movement is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' often associated with?
A) Impressionism
B) Abstract Expressionism
C) Cubism
D) Ukiyo-e
- 10. During which period was The Great Wave off Kanagawa created?
A) Taisho period
B) Showa period
C) Meiji period
D) Edo period
- 11. What color revolutionized Japanese prints in The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Cobalt blue
B) Viridian green
C) Ultramarine
D) Prussian blue
- 12. What European development influenced the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Impressionism
B) Cubism
C) Graphical perspective
D) Pointillism
- 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) Less than 50
D) Over 500
- 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 calm sea with small waves
B) A stormy sky with no visible water
C) Mount Fuji without any boats
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) Chōnin class
B) Nobility class
C) Samurai class
D) Peasant class
- 17. What does the term 'ukiyo' describe in ukiyo-e art?
A) A hedonistic lifestyle
B) Feudal warfare
C) Zen Buddhism practices
D) Traditional Japanese architecture
- 18. Who introduced color prints to ukiyo-e art?
A) Okumura Masanobu
B) Suzuki Harunobu
C) Utagawa Hiroshige
D) Hishikawa Moronobu
- 19. How many woodblocks were typically used for full-color ukiyo-e prints by the 1760s?
A) Ten or more blocks
B) One block
C) Two blocks
D) Five blocks
- 20. What profession did Hokusai's father have?
A) Engraver
B) Bookshop owner
C) Painter
D) Shogun mirror-maker
- 21. At what age was Hokusai named Tokitarō?
A) 14
B) 12
C) 6
D) 16
- 22. Which artist did Hokusai become an apprentice to at eighteen?
A) Daruma
B) Hokusai himself
C) Calza
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) 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) 80
B) 73
C) 60
D) 50
- 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 start using only black ink.
D) He would stop drawing completely.
- 26. How many volumes of sketches did Hokusai publish as manga?
A) 10
B) 15
C) 5
D) 20
- 27. Which French sculptor created La Vague, inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Constantin Brâncuși
B) Camille Claudel
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) 40%
C) 20%
D) 30%
- 29. What term describes the influence of Japanese art on Western culture?
A) Art Nouveau
B) Impressionism
C) Orientalism
D) Japonisme
- 30. Which artist praised The Great Wave off Kanagawa for its quality of drawing and use of line?
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Paul Cézanne
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) Shiba Kōkan
B) Okumura Masanobu
C) Hiroshige
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) Greek mythology.
C) Roman history.
D) Christian theology.
- 33. What emotional impact did Vincent van Gogh describe The Great Wave off Kanagawa as having?
A) A calming influence
B) An uplifting feeling
C) A 'terrifying' emotional impact
D) A sense of serenity
- 34. When was the episode about 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' on BBC Radio released?
A) 2004
B) 1995
C) 2017
D) 4 September 2010
- 35. What do the cumulonimbus clouds in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' typically indicate?
A) Sunny day
B) A storm
C) Rainy season
D) Clear weather
- 36. When was Prussian blue first imported to Japan from Holland?
A) 1840
B) 1810
C) 1830
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) 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) Fifty men
B) Thirty men
C) Twenty-two men
D) Forty men
- 40. Which genre of Western artists was particularly inspired by Japanese woodblock prints?
A) The Cubists
B) The Realists
C) The Surrealists
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) One relief crew member
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) 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) 8,000
B) 1,000
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) 2017
B) 1995
C) 2022
D) 2004
- 45. What was Prussian blue known as in Japanese during Hokusai's time?
A) Kyoto blue
B) Tokyo indigo
C) Osaka pigment
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) 2017
B) 1995
C) 2004
D) 2024
- 47. Which publication's writer called 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' the most famous artwork in Japanese history?
A) National Gallery of Victoria
B) British Museum
C) BBC
D) Wall Street Journal
- 48. What year did Hokusai arrive at the final design for 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) 1826
B) 1833
C) 1812
D) Late 1831
- 49. How many rowers are visible on each boat in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Ten rowers
B) Six rowers
C) Twelve rowers
D) Eight rowers
- 50. Through which city did Western perspective arrive in Japan?
A) Tokyo
B) Nagasaki
C) Osaka
D) Kyoto
- 51. What is the name of the work by Japanese-American artist Kozyndan based on 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Uprisings
B) Michael and I are just slipping down to the pub for a minute
C) The Sea off Satta in Suruga Province
D) La menace suspendue: La Vague
- 52. How many views are included in The Great Wave off Kanagawa series?
A) Thirty-six
B) Fifty
C) Twenty-four
D) Forty-two
- 53. What event marked Japan's end of isolation and opened it to Western imports?
A) The arrival of Commodore Perry
B) The opening of Yokohama port
C) The signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa
D) The 1868 Meiji Restoration
- 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) On one of the boats
B) In the upper left-hand corner
C) In the center of the wave
D) At the bottom right-hand corner
- 56. Who was one of the first artists heavily influenced by Hokusai's work, particularly The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Claude Monet
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 boats face away from the wave.
B) The boats are oriented towards the viewer.
C) The boats face towards Mount Fuji.
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) Wall Street Journal
B) British Museum
C) National Gallery of Victoria
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 boats
B) The fishermen
C) Mount Fuji
D) The sea
- 61. What type of boats are depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Cargo ships
B) Fishing boats
C) Oshiokuri-bune
D) Warships
- 62. What style is characterized by predominantly-blue prints in the series?
A) Ukiyo-e
B) Sumi-e
C) Yamato-e
D) Aizuri-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) The Private Life of a Masterpiece
D) A History of the World in 100 Objects
- 64. Which company's emoji character for a water wave resembles the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Microsoft
B) Google
C) Samsung
D) Apple Inc.
- 65. Who described 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' as possibly the most reproduced image in art history?
A) Wayne Crothers
B) Gustave-Henri Jossot
C) Ellen Gamerman
D) Hiroshige
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