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  1. Ukiyo-e - Wikipedia

    • Ukiyo-e (浮世絵) is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica. The term ukiyo-e (浮世絵) translates as 'picture[s… See more

    History

    Japanese art since the Heian period (794–1185) had followed two principal paths: the nativist Yamato-e tradition, … See more

    Style

    Early ukiyo-e artists brought with them a sophisticated knowledge of and training in the composition principles of classical Chinese painting; gradually these artists shed the overt Chinese influence to develop a n… See more

    Production

    Ukiyo-e artists often made both prints and paintings; some specialized in one or the other. In contrast with previous traditions, ukiyo-e painters favoured bright, sharp colours, and often delineated contours with sumi ink, … See more

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    Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Its name means 'pictures of the floating world', a reference to the urban pleasures and entertainments that it depicted.
    Criticism and historiography

    Contemporary records of ukiyo-e artists are rare. The most significant is the Ukiyo-e Ruikō ("Various Thoughts on ukiyo-e"), a collection of commentaries and artist biographies. Ōta Nanpo compiled the first, no-longer-e… See more

    Collection and preservation

    The ruling classes strictly limited the space permitted for the homes of the lower social classes; the relatively small size of ukiyo-e works was ideal for hanging in these homes. Little record of the patrons of ukiyo-e paintings … See more

    Notes

    1. ^ The obsolete transliteration "ukiyo-ye" appears in older texts.
    2. ^ Many of these type pieces were repeat characters; as certain characters were used multiple times on the same page, multiples of these characters … See more

     
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  1. Ukiyo-e [a] is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica.
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    Ukiyo-e, (Japanese: “pictures of the floating world”) one of the most important genres of art of the Tokugawa period (1603–1867) in Japan. The style is a mixture of the realistic narrative of the emaki (“picture scrolls”) produced in the Kamakura period and the mature decorative style of the Momoyama and Tokugawa periods.

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  2. Dictionary
    u·ki·yo-e
    [ˌo͞okēyōˈ(y)ā]
    noun
    ukiyo-e (noun) · ukiyoe (noun)
    1. a school of Japanese art depicting subjects from everyday life, dominant in the 17th–19th centuries.
    Origin
    Japanese, from ukiyo ‘fleeting world’ + e ‘picture’.
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  3. Ukiyo-e | Woodblock Printing, Edo Period & Japanese …

    Jul 20, 1998 · Ukiyo-e, one of the most important genres of art of the Tokugawa period (1603–1867) in Japan. The style is a mixture of the realistic narrative of the emaki (“picture scrolls”) produced in the Kamakura period and the mature …

     
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    Aug 21, 2022 · Ukiyo-e art which translates to English as “pictures from the floating world,” often focuses on the hedonistic aspect of Japanese life during the Edo period, and the beauty of the country’s natural landscapes.

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    Mar 11, 2024 · Ukiyo-e is a distinctive form of Japanese art that became especially popular from the 17th to the 19th centuries, shaping the aesthetics of Japan’s Edo period. This genre is characterized by woodblock prints and …

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    Ukiyo-e is the movement in Japanese woodblock prints that depict idyllic narratives in the aesthetics of beauty, poetry, nature, spirituality, love, and sex.

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    Ukiyo-e originally depicted the everyday life of people living in the city of Kyoto in the late sixteenth century. It became a popular art form in the Edo period (1603–1867), though, thanks partly to advances in woodblock printing …

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    “Ukiyo” (浮世) means contemporary with hedonisitic and fleeting idea, so ukiyo-e translated as picture of floating world. The origin of ukiyoe was Yamato-e (大和絵, traditional Japanese painting) but drew the line from the field of …

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    What is Ukiyo-e? In Japanese art, the term Ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") is commonly used to describe woodblock prints and paintings from the period (c.1670-1900).

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