- 1. Who is the artist of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Vincent van Gogh
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Leonardo da Vinci
D) Katsushika Hokusai
- 2. In which century was 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' created?
A) 20th century
B) 18th century
C) 17th century
D) 19th century
- 3. What type of print is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Woodblock print
B) Watercolor painting
C) Oil painting
D) Sculpture
- 4. What is the season depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Winter
B) Summer
C) Autumn
D) Spring
- 5. What type of wave is depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Whirlpool
B) Tide
C) Tsunami
D) Ripple
- 6. What is the shape of the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Curved
B) Straight
C) Wavy
D) Angular
- 7. What is the traditional Japanese name of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Kanagawa oki nami ura
B) Himeji Castle
C) Sakura no hana
D) Kumano kodo
- 8. Which mountain is visible in the background of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Mount Everest
B) Mount Fuji
C) Mount Rainier
D) Mount Kilimanjaro
- 9. What art movement is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' often associated with?
A) Ukiyo-e
B) Impressionism
C) Abstract Expressionism
D) Cubism
- 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) Prussian blue
B) Cobalt blue
C) Viridian green
D) Ultramarine
- 12. What European development influenced the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Cubism
B) Pointillism
C) Impressionism
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) About 100
C) Over 500
D) Exactly 250
- 14. Which Western artist was inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Rembrandt
B) Claude Monet
C) Salvador Dalí
D) Pablo Picasso
- 15. What is depicted in the center of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) A stormy sky with no visible water
B) A large, cresting wave forming a spiral over boats
C) Mount Fuji without any boats
D) A calm sea with small waves
- 16. Which class benefited from Edo's economic growth and patronized ukiyo-e art?
A) Peasant class
B) Samurai class
C) Chōnin class
D) Nobility class
- 17. What does the term 'ukiyo' describe in ukiyo-e art?
A) Zen Buddhism practices
B) Feudal warfare
C) A hedonistic lifestyle
D) Traditional Japanese architecture
- 18. Who introduced color prints to ukiyo-e art?
A) Utagawa Hiroshige
B) Hishikawa Moronobu
C) Suzuki Harunobu
D) Okumura Masanobu
- 19. How many woodblocks were typically used for full-color ukiyo-e prints by the 1760s?
A) Ten or more blocks
B) Five blocks
C) Two blocks
D) One block
- 20. What profession did Hokusai's father have?
A) Engraver
B) Painter
C) Shogun mirror-maker
D) Bookshop owner
- 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) Hokusai himself
B) Katsukawa Shunshō
C) Calza
D) Daruma
- 23. What was the size of Hokusai's drawing for a festival in Tokyo?
A) 100-square-foot
B) 50-square-yard
C) 240-square-metre
D) 300-square-centimetre
- 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 start using only black ink.
C) He would stop drawing completely.
D) He would become famous worldwide.
- 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) Auguste Rodin
B) Camille Claudel
C) Constantin Brâncuși
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) 30%
D) 40%
- 29. What term describes the influence of Japanese art on Western culture?
A) Impressionism
B) Art Nouveau
C) Japonisme
D) Orientalism
- 30. Which artist praised The Great Wave off Kanagawa for its quality of drawing and use of line?
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Vincent van Gogh
C) Paul Cézanne
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) Roman history.
B) Buddhist philosophy and Shinto beliefs.
C) Greek mythology.
D) Christian theology.
- 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 sense of serenity
D) A calming influence
- 34. When was the episode about 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' on BBC Radio released?
A) 4 September 2010
B) 2017
C) 2004
D) 1995
- 35. 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
- 36. When was Prussian blue first imported to Japan from Holland?
A) 1830
B) 1840
C) 1820
D) 1810
- 37. Which artist was an indirect student of Utagawa Toyoharu?
A) Hiroshige
B) Shiba Kōkan
C) Okumura Masanobu
D) Nishimuraya Yohachi
- 38. From whom did the Bibliothèque nationale de France acquire its copy of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Raymond Koechlin's bequest
B) Kazuo Okada
C) Henry Osborne Havemeyer's collection
D) Samuel Bing's collection
- 39. How many men are represented in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Twenty-two men
B) Thirty men
C) Forty men
D) Fifty men
- 40. Which genre of Western artists was particularly inspired by Japanese woodblock prints?
A) The Realists
B) The Cubists
C) The Impressionists
D) The Surrealists
- 41. How many relief crew members are at the front of each boat in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) One relief crew member
B) Three relief crew members
C) Four relief crew members
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) London
C) American cities
D) Paris
- 43. How many original impressions of the first edition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa are known to survive worldwide?
A) 113
B) 1,000
C) 8,000
D) 35
- 44. In which year did the Bank of Japan announce the inclusion of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' in redesigned banknotes?
A) 1995
B) 2004
C) 2017
D) 2022
- 45. What was Prussian blue known as in Japanese during Hokusai's time?
A) Tokyo indigo
B) Osaka pigment
C) Berlin ai (ベルリン藍)
D) Kyoto blue
- 46. When are the new Japanese banknotes featuring 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' expected to begin circulation?
A) 1995
B) 2024
C) 2004
D) 2017
- 47. Which publication's writer called 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' the most famous artwork in Japanese history?
A) BBC
B) Wall Street Journal
C) National Gallery of Victoria
D) British Museum
- 48. What year did Hokusai arrive at the final design for 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) 1812
B) 1826
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) Twelve rowers
D) Six rowers
- 50. Through which city did Western perspective arrive in Japan?
A) Osaka
B) Nagasaki
C) Kyoto
D) Tokyo
- 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) The Sea off Satta in Suruga Province
C) Uprisings
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) Forty-two
B) Thirty-six
C) Fifty
D) Twenty-four
- 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 arrival of Commodore Perry
C) The 1868 Meiji Restoration
D) The opening of Yokohama port
- 54. In which direction are the boats facing in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) South, likely to Sagami Bay
B) East towards Tokyo
C) West towards Mount Fuji
D) North towards Edo
- 55. 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
- 56. Who was one of the first artists heavily influenced by Hokusai's work, particularly The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Henri Rivière
B) Vincent van Gogh
C) Claude Monet
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 boats face away from the wave.
B) The boats are oriented towards the viewer.
C) The slender, tapering bow faces left, implying a right-to-left interpretation.
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) 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) Lin Onus
D) Kozyndan
- 60. What dominates the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) The fishermen
B) The sea
C) Mount Fuji
D) The boats
- 61. What type of boats are depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Warships
B) Cargo ships
C) Oshiokuri-bune
D) Fishing boats
- 62. What style is characterized by predominantly-blue prints in the series?
A) Aizuri-e
B) Ukiyo-e
C) Yamato-e
D) Sumi-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) A History of the World in 100 Objects
C) La menace suspendue: La Vague
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) Google
B) Apple Inc.
C) Samsung
D) Microsoft
- 65. 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
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