- 1. Who is the artist of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Vincent van Gogh
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Katsushika Hokusai
D) Leonardo da Vinci
- 2. In which century was 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' created?
A) 20th century
B) 18th century
C) 19th century
D) 17th century
- 3. What type of print is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Watercolor painting
B) Oil painting
C) Woodblock print
D) Sculpture
- 4. What is the season depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Winter
B) Autumn
C) Summer
D) Spring
- 5. What type of wave is depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Tide
B) Ripple
C) Whirlpool
D) Tsunami
- 6. What is the shape of the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Curved
B) Wavy
C) Straight
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 Rainier
B) Mount Everest
C) Mount Kilimanjaro
D) Mount Fuji
- 9. What art movement is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' often associated with?
A) Cubism
B) Ukiyo-e
C) Abstract Expressionism
D) Impressionism
- 10. During which period was The Great Wave off Kanagawa created?
A) Edo period
B) Showa period
C) Meiji period
D) Taisho 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) Cubism
B) Impressionism
C) Pointillism
D) Graphical perspective
- 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) Claude Monet
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Salvador Dalí
D) Rembrandt
- 15. What is depicted in the center of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) A large, cresting wave forming a spiral over boats
B) A calm sea with small waves
C) Mount Fuji without any boats
D) A stormy sky with no visible water
- 16. Which class benefited from Edo's economic growth and patronized ukiyo-e art?
A) Samurai class
B) Nobility class
C) Peasant class
D) Chōnin class
- 17. What does the term 'ukiyo' describe in ukiyo-e art?
A) Feudal warfare
B) A hedonistic lifestyle
C) Traditional Japanese architecture
D) Zen Buddhism practices
- 18. Who introduced color prints to ukiyo-e art?
A) Suzuki Harunobu
B) Utagawa Hiroshige
C) Hishikawa Moronobu
D) Okumura Masanobu
- 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) Painter
B) Bookshop owner
C) Engraver
D) Shogun mirror-maker
- 21. At what age was Hokusai named Tokitarō?
A) 16
B) 14
C) 6
D) 12
- 22. Which artist did Hokusai become an apprentice to at eighteen?
A) Hokusai himself
B) Calza
C) Katsukawa Shunshō
D) Daruma
- 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) 80
D) 60
- 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 stop drawing completely.
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) 5
C) 15
D) 20
- 27. Where is the artist's signature located in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) At the bottom right-hand corner
B) In the upper left-hand corner
C) In the center of the wave
D) On one of the boats
- 28. What do the cumulonimbus clouds in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' typically indicate?
A) Clear weather
B) A storm
C) Sunny day
D) Rainy season
- 29. What type of boats are depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Fishing boats
B) Warships
C) Oshiokuri-bune
D) Cargo ships
- 30. In which direction are the boats facing in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) West towards Mount Fuji
B) North towards Edo
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) Ten rowers
B) Eight rowers
C) Twelve rowers
D) Six rowers
- 32. How many relief crew members are at the front of each boat in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Four relief crew members
B) One relief crew member
C) Three relief crew members
D) Two relief crew members
- 33. How many men are represented in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Forty men
B) Twenty-two men
C) Thirty men
D) Fifty men
- 34. By what percentage did Hokusai reduce the vertical scale of the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) 50%
B) 20%
C) 30%
D) 40%
- 35. What dominates the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) The sea
B) Mount Fuji
C) The boats
D) The fishermen
- 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) Greek mythology.
B) Christian theology.
C) Buddhist philosophy and Shinto beliefs.
D) Roman history.
- 38. 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 slender, tapering bow faces left, implying a right-to-left interpretation.
C) The boats face away from the wave.
D) The boats face towards Mount Fuji.
- 39. What year did Hokusai arrive at the final design for 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) 1833
B) Late 1831
C) 1812
D) 1826
- 40. Through which city did Western perspective arrive in Japan?
A) Nagasaki
B) Kyoto
C) Osaka
D) Tokyo
- 41. Which artist made the first attempts to imitate the use of Western perspective in Japanese art?
A) Shiba Kōkan
B) Utagawa Toyoharu
C) Hiroshige
D) Okumura Masanobu
- 42. When was Prussian blue first imported to Japan from Holland?
A) 1810
B) 1820
C) 1830
D) 1840
- 43. What was Prussian blue known as in Japanese during Hokusai's time?
A) Kyoto blue
B) Osaka pigment
C) Tokyo indigo
D) Berlin ai (ベルリン藍)
- 44. Which artist was an indirect student of Utagawa Toyoharu?
A) Okumura Masanobu
B) Hiroshige
C) Nishimuraya Yohachi
D) Shiba Kōkan
- 45. What style is characterized by predominantly-blue prints in the series?
A) Ukiyo-e
B) Yamato-e
C) Sumi-e
D) Aizuri-e
- 46. How many original impressions of the first edition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa are known to survive worldwide?
A) 113
B) 35
C) 8,000
D) 1,000
- 47. Which city has the greatest number of surviving first edition prints of The Great Wave off Kanagawa in its museums?
A) Paris
B) American cities
C) London
D) Tokyo
- 48. From whom did the Bibliothèque nationale de France acquire its copy of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Henry Osborne Havemeyer's collection
B) Samuel Bing's collection
C) Raymond Koechlin's bequest
D) Kazuo Okada
- 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 opening of Yokohama port
C) The arrival of Commodore Perry
D) The 1868 Meiji Restoration
- 50. What term describes the influence of Japanese art on Western culture?
A) Art Nouveau
B) Japonisme
C) Orientalism
D) Impressionism
- 51. Which genre of Western artists was particularly inspired by Japanese woodblock prints?
A) The Surrealists
B) The Cubists
C) The Impressionists
D) The Realists
- 52. 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
- 53. Which artist praised The Great Wave off Kanagawa for its quality of drawing and use of line?
A) Paul Cézanne
B) Claude Monet
C) Vincent van Gogh
D) Pablo Picasso
- 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) Constantin Brâncuși
D) Auguste Rodin
- 56. Who described 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' as possibly the most reproduced image in art history?
A) Hiroshige
B) Gustave-Henri Jossot
C) Wayne Crothers
D) Ellen Gamerman
- 57. Which publication's writer called 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' the most famous artwork in Japanese history?
A) Wall Street Journal
B) National Gallery of Victoria
C) British Museum
D) BBC
- 58. Which Indigenous Australian artist used 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' as the basis for his 1992 painting?
A) Lin Onus
B) Hiroshige
C) Gustave-Henri Jossot
D) Kozyndan
- 59. 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
- 60. Which company's emoji character for a water wave resembles the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Samsung
B) Apple Inc.
C) Microsoft
D) Google
- 61. 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
- 62. When are the new Japanese banknotes featuring 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' expected to begin circulation?
A) 2017
B) 2004
C) 2024
D) 1995
- 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) The Private Life of a Masterpiece
D) A History of the World in 100 Objects
- 64. When was the episode about 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' on BBC Radio released?
A) 1995
B) 2017
C) 4 September 2010
D) 2004
- 65. Which institution produced a documentary film about Hokusai in 2017 that included a replica of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) BBC
B) Wall Street Journal
C) National Gallery of Victoria
D) British Museum
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