2022年1月30日 · The most famous Ukiyo-e of all time falls into five main categories of woodblock art prints: beautiful women, landscapes, warriors/heroes, kabuki actors, and shunga (illegal, sexually explicit art). Spanning from the 17th to the 19th centuries, here are the ten most important Ukiyo-e prints of all time.

2003年10月1日 · These pictures could be made in great quantity and featured popular scenes that appealed in particular to the wealthy townspeople of the period. Woodblock prints were initially used as early as the eighth century in Japan to …

Ukiyo-e[a] (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.

2020年11月25日 · Ukiyo-e is a famous Japanese woodblock print style that emerged in the 17th century. Throughout its evolution, it gave rise to some of the most well-known Japanese artists. The ukiyo-e art movement started in the 17th century and peaked in 18th and 19th century Edo, current-day Tokyo.

2025年2月27日 · 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 decorative style of the Momoyama and Tokugawa periods.

2019年8月1日 · Along with paintings, prints produced from the 17th century through the 19th century captured the spirit of ukiyo-e, a genre that presented “pictures of the floating world” to the public. Here, we explore these Japanese woodblock prints, paying particular attention to their fascinating history, age-old techniques, recognizable style, and ...

2020年8月27日 · Produced in their many thousands and hugely popular during the Edo period (1615 – 1868), these colourful woodblock prints, known as ukiyo-e, depicted scenes from everyday Japan. Ukiyo-e literally means 'pictures of the floating world'.

Collection the Cincinnati Art Museum. Uki-e (浮絵, "floating picture", implying "perspective picture") refers to a genre of ukiyo-e pictures that employs western conventions of linear perspective. Although they never constituted more than a minor genre, pictures in perspective were drawn and printed by Japanese artists from their introduction ...

2021年8月30日 · Japanese woodblock art printmaking or Ukiyo-e, “Art of The Floating World” from the Edo Period (1603 – 1868) were hugely popular and influential not only for local Japanese culture, but for westerns alike.

2024年3月11日 · Ukiyo-e represents a crucial era of Japanese art from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The art form encapsulates the transient lifestyle and culture of Edo-period Japan. Ukiyo-e involved an evolution from simple prints to complex polychromatic art, featuring profound social and historical influences.