Ukiyo (浮世, 'floating/fleeting/transient world') is the Japanese term used to describe the urban lifestyle and culture, especially the pleasure-seeking... 3 KB (258 words) - 22:08, 15 March 2024 |
The Great Wave off Kanagawa (section Ukiyo-e art) lit. 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa') is a woodblock print by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, created in late 1831 during the Edo period of Japanese... 55 KB (5,965 words) - 03:51, 1 May 2024 |
31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849), known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. He is best... 37 KB (4,438 words) - 22:51, 20 March 2024 |
The Ukiyo-e Ruikō (浮世絵類考, "Various Thoughts on Ukiyo-e") is a Japanese collection of commentaries and biographies of ukiyo-e artists. It did not appear... 2 KB (252 words) - 17:46, 19 February 2021 |
Shunga (category Ukiyo-e genres) as a kind of ukiyo-e, often in woodblock print format. While rare, there are also extant erotic painted handscrolls which predate ukiyo-e. Translated literally... 19 KB (2,379 words) - 22:47, 16 January 2024 |
The Japan Ukiyo-e Museum (日本浮世絵博物館, Nihon Ukiyo-e Hakubutsukan)(JUM) is a privately owned Japanese art museum in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture. It holds... 3 KB (290 words) - 09:23, 28 January 2024 |
CE). It is featured in artwork such as ukiyo-e prints, one example being the Lucky Gods' visit to Enoshima ukiyo-e print by Utagawa Yoshiiku in 1869 and... 43 KB (4,665 words) - 01:48, 2 May 2024 |
Utamaro (category Ukiyo-e artists) most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful... 39 KB (4,437 words) - 16:54, 23 April 2024 |
Shin-hanga (category Ukiyo-e genres) revitalized the traditional ukiyo-e art rooted in the Edo and Meiji periods (17th–19th century). It maintained the traditional ukiyo-e collaborative system (hanmoto... 13 KB (1,663 words) - 23:47, 25 February 2024 |
Banchō Sarayashiki (section Okiku and ukiyo-e) and dies. Like many kabuki plays, Okiku was a popular subject matter for ukiyo-e artists. In 1830, Katsushika Hokusai included her as one of the kaidan... 14 KB (1,834 words) - 17:50, 3 January 2024 |
Ukiyo-zōshi (浮世草子, "books of the floating world") is the first major genre of popular Japanese fiction, written between the 1680s and 1770s in Kyoto and... 33 KB (4,396 words) - 01:44, 18 February 2024 |
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (category Ukiyo-e artists) Yoshitoshi has widely been recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock printing and painting. He is also regarded as one of... 23 KB (2,773 words) - 23:01, 4 April 2024 |
Muzan-e in 1988 with an art book entitled Bloody Ukiyo-e. While just as bloody and disturbing as the collection it is based on, Bloody Ukiyo-e also show... 3 KB (387 words) - 13:00, 26 January 2024 |
Woodblock printing in Japan (category Ukiyo-e) in Japan (木版画, mokuhanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books... 31 KB (3,281 words) - 21:15, 2 April 2024 |
in the ukiyo-e style popular through the Edo period (1603–1867) and into the beginnings of the 20th century. Most strictly, the term yakusha-e refers... 8 KB (1,130 words) - 16:56, 19 October 2023 |
"Father of ukiyo-e Torii Kiyonobu I 1664–1729 Printmaker Sukenobu 1682–1752 Ukiyo-e painter, Miyagawa school Miyagawa Shunsui fl. c. 1740-60s Ukiyo-e painter... 31 KB (595 words) - 04:01, 28 April 2024 |
Ukiyo-e artists may be organized into schools, which consist of a founding artist and those artists who were taught by or strongly influenced by him.... 9 KB (867 words) - 04:29, 12 March 2023 |
Kunisada (category Ukiyo-e artists) Toyokuni), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century... 16 KB (2,157 words) - 01:32, 22 February 2024 |
Sharaku (category Ukiyo-e artists) Tōshūsai Sharaku (Japanese: 東洲斎 写楽; active 1794–1795) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, known for his portraits of kabuki actors. Neither his true... 39 KB (4,457 words) - 22:01, 15 November 2023 |
Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi), in the Hōeidō edition (1833–1834), is a series of ukiyo-e woodcut prints created by Utagawa Hiroshige after his first travel along... 24 KB (1,618 words) - 19:01, 29 April 2024 |
Yotsuya Kaidan (section Yotsuya Kaidan and ukiyo-e) popular Kabuki play, Yotsuya Kaidan soon became a popular subject for ukiyo-e artists as well. In 1826, the same year the play opened at Sumiza Theater... 18 KB (2,405 words) - 05:43, 26 April 2024 |
backgrounds.[citation needed] Several prints in various versions of the ukiyo-e series The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō depict meibutsu. These include... 47 KB (1,082 words) - 10:02, 16 January 2024 |
Hishikawa Moronobu (category Ukiyo-e artists) 1618 – 25 July 1694) was a Japanese artist known for popularizing the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock prints and paintings in the late 17th century. He consolidated... 12 KB (1,422 words) - 22:01, 10 April 2024 |