Benizuri-e (紅刷絵, "crimson printed pictures") are a type of "primitive" ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints. They were usually printed in pink (beni)...

This printing technique should not be confused with "beni-e", above. Both "beni-e" and "benizuri-e" are so named for the predominant reddish colorants, derived...

pink-tinted beni-e and later the lacquer-like ink of the urushi-e. In 1744, the benizuri-e were the first successes in colour printing, using multiple woodblocks—one...

this development were: Sumizuri-e (墨摺り絵, "ink printed pictures") – monochrome printing using only black ink Benizuri-e (紅摺り絵, "crimson printed pictures")...

nishiki-e, developed around 1765, but many shunga prints predate this. Prior to this, colour was added to monochrome prints by hand, and from 1744 benizuri-e...

the block Beni-e (紅絵); primitive ukiyo-e style prints, usually printed in pink Benizuri-e (紅刷絵, "crimson picture"); primitive ukiyo-e style prints, usually...

her works have been illustrated by Japanese artists and well-known ukiyo-e woodblock masters. Murasaki Shikibu was born c. 973 in Heian-kyō, Japan, into...

the invention of benizuri-e had made it possible to print in three or four colors; Harunobu applied this new technique to ukiyo-e prints using up to...

pictures")—monochrome printing using only black ink Beni-e (紅絵)—monochrome prints usually printed in pink Benizuri-e (紅摺り絵, "crimson printed pictures")—red ink details...

chiefly benizuri-e ("rose prints"), but stopped producing ukiyo-e shortly after Suzuki Harunobu pioneered the full-color print (nishiki-e) in 1765....

predecessors. But they were also some of the first to experiment with benizuri-e, or "rose prints"; at this time, printers began to use color on the woodblocks...

predominantly in shades of blue. A counterpart to ostensibly red and pink benizuri-e (紅摺絵), aizuri-e were a late Edo period development. Perhaps due to the fact that...

prints and bijinga (pictures of beautiful women), he primarily used the benizuri-e technique prolific at the time, which involved using one or two colors...

like many at the time, were made largely using the urushi-e (lacquer print) and benizuri-e (rose print) methods; the lines or outlines of the prints themselves...

last about 1764. All of his known works are benizuri-e, and though the Torii school was known for its yakusha-e actor prints, Kiyohiro also specialized in...

to produce full-colour prints, Harunobu used the same composition in a benizuri-e print, Before the Tomiyoshi-ya, in which the lead figure carries a closed...