- 1. Who is the artist of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Leonardo da Vinci
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Vincent van Gogh
D) Katsushika Hokusai
- 2. In which century was 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' created?
A) 18th century
B) 17th century
C) 20th century
D) 19th century
- 3. What type of print is 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Oil painting
B) Woodblock print
C) Watercolor painting
D) Sculpture
- 4. What is the season depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Summer
B) Winter
C) Autumn
D) Spring
- 5. What type of wave is depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Tsunami
B) Whirlpool
C) Tide
D) Ripple
- 6. What is the shape of the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Straight
B) Curved
C) Wavy
D) Angular
- 7. What is the traditional Japanese name of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Kanagawa oki nami ura
B) Kumano kodo
C) Himeji Castle
D) Sakura no hana
- 8. Which mountain is visible in the background of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Mount Kilimanjaro
B) Mount Everest
C) Mount Rainier
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) Showa period
B) Taisho period
C) Edo period
D) Meiji period
- 11. What color revolutionized Japanese prints in The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Cobalt blue
B) Prussian blue
C) Ultramarine
D) Viridian green
- 12. What European development influenced the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Pointillism
B) Graphical perspective
C) Cubism
D) Impressionism
- 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) 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 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) Peasant class
C) Nobility class
D) Chōnin class
- 17. What does the term 'ukiyo' describe in ukiyo-e art?
A) Traditional Japanese architecture
B) Zen Buddhism practices
C) Feudal warfare
D) A hedonistic lifestyle
- 18. Who introduced color prints to ukiyo-e art?
A) Suzuki Harunobu
B) Hishikawa Moronobu
C) Okumura Masanobu
D) Utagawa Hiroshige
- 19. How many woodblocks were typically used for full-color ukiyo-e prints by the 1760s?
A) Two blocks
B) One block
C) Ten or more blocks
D) Five blocks
- 20. What profession did Hokusai's father have?
A) Engraver
B) Shogun mirror-maker
C) Painter
D) Bookshop owner
- 21. At what age was Hokusai named Tokitarō?
A) 14
B) 6
C) 16
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) 60
B) 50
C) 73
D) 80
- 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 start using only black ink.
D) He would become famous worldwide.
- 26. How many volumes of sketches did Hokusai publish as manga?
A) 5
B) 20
C) 15
D) 10
- 27. Where is the artist's signature located in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) In the center of the wave
B) In the upper left-hand corner
C) On one of the boats
D) At the bottom right-hand corner
- 28. 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
- 29. What type of boats are depicted in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Warships
B) Fishing boats
C) Cargo ships
D) Oshiokuri-bune
- 30. In which direction are the boats facing in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) West towards Mount Fuji
B) East towards Tokyo
C) South, likely to Sagami Bay
D) North towards Edo
- 31. 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
- 32. How many relief crew members are at the front of each boat in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) One relief crew member
B) Four relief crew members
C) Two relief crew members
D) Three relief crew members
- 33. How many men are represented in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Forty men
B) Fifty men
C) Thirty men
D) Twenty-two men
- 34. By what percentage did Hokusai reduce the vertical scale of the wave in 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) 40%
B) 20%
C) 50%
D) 30%
- 35. What dominates the composition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) The fishermen
B) The sea
C) Mount Fuji
D) The boats
- 36. How many views are included in The Great Wave off Kanagawa series?
A) Thirty-six
B) Twenty-four
C) Forty-two
D) Fifty
- 37. 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.
- 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) 1812
B) 1833
C) Late 1831
D) 1826
- 40. Through which city did Western perspective arrive in Japan?
A) Osaka
B) Nagasaki
C) Tokyo
D) Kyoto
- 41. Which artist made the first attempts to imitate the use of Western perspective in Japanese art?
A) Hiroshige
B) Okumura Masanobu
C) Utagawa Toyoharu
D) Shiba Kōkan
- 42. When was Prussian blue first imported to Japan from Holland?
A) 1820
B) 1810
C) 1830
D) 1840
- 43. What was Prussian blue known as in Japanese during Hokusai's time?
A) Osaka pigment
B) Tokyo indigo
C) Kyoto blue
D) Berlin ai (ベルリン藍)
- 44. Which artist was an indirect student of Utagawa Toyoharu?
A) Okumura Masanobu
B) Nishimuraya Yohachi
C) Hiroshige
D) Shiba Kōkan
- 45. What style is characterized by predominantly-blue prints in the series?
A) Sumi-e
B) Ukiyo-e
C) Aizuri-e
D) Yamato-e
- 46. How many original impressions of the first edition of The Great Wave off Kanagawa are known to survive worldwide?
A) 35
B) 8,000
C) 1,000
D) 113
- 47. 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
- 48. From whom did the Bibliothèque nationale de France acquire its copy of The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Samuel Bing's collection
B) Raymond Koechlin's bequest
C) Kazuo Okada
D) Henry Osborne Havemeyer's collection
- 49. What event marked Japan's end of isolation and opened it to Western imports?
A) The 1868 Meiji Restoration
B) The arrival of Commodore Perry
C) The opening of Yokohama port
D) The signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa
- 50. What term describes the influence of Japanese art on Western culture?
A) Impressionism
B) Japonisme
C) Art Nouveau
D) Orientalism
- 51. Which genre of Western artists was particularly inspired by Japanese woodblock prints?
A) The Impressionists
B) The Cubists
C) The Realists
D) The Surrealists
- 52. 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
- 53. Which artist praised The Great Wave off Kanagawa for its quality of drawing and use of line?
A) Paul Cézanne
B) Vincent van Gogh
C) Claude Monet
D) Pablo Picasso
- 54. What emotional impact did Vincent van Gogh describe The Great Wave off Kanagawa as having?
A) A calming influence
B) A 'terrifying' emotional impact
C) A sense of serenity
D) An uplifting feeling
- 55. Which French sculptor created La Vague, inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
A) Constantin Brâncuși
B) Auguste Rodin
C) Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
D) Camille Claudel
- 56. Who described 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' as possibly the most reproduced image in art history?
A) Hiroshige
B) Gustave-Henri Jossot
C) Ellen Gamerman
D) Wayne Crothers
- 57. Which publication's writer called 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' the most famous artwork in Japanese history?
A) Wall Street Journal
B) BBC
C) National Gallery of Victoria
D) British Museum
- 58. 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
- 59. What is the name of the work by Japanese-American artist Kozyndan based on 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) Michael and I are just slipping down to the pub for a minute
B) La menace suspendue: La Vague
C) Uprisings
D) The Sea off Satta in Suruga Province
- 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) Google
D) Microsoft
- 61. In which year did the Bank of Japan announce the inclusion of 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' in redesigned banknotes?
A) 2022
B) 1995
C) 2017
D) 2004
- 62. When are the new Japanese banknotes featuring 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' expected to begin circulation?
A) 1995
B) 2004
C) 2024
D) 2017
- 63. What is the title of the 30-minute French-language documentary about 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?
A) A History of the World in 100 Objects
B) Hokusai: The Great Wave
C) La menace suspendue: La Vague
D) The Private Life of a Masterpiece
- 64. When was the episode about 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' on BBC Radio released?
A) 4 September 2010
B) 1995
C) 2004
D) 2017
- 65. 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
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