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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.
The Japan Ukiyo-e Museum was established in 1982 by Tokichi Sakai, a member of the Sakai merchant family, who have practiced business in Matsumoto for generations. [3] It is based on collections of ukiyo-e owned by the family. The first items were collected by Yoshitaka Sakai (1810–69), paper wholesaler and art patron, and his son and grandson.
Entrance to the Koishikawa Ukiyo-e Art Museum. Koishikawa Ukiyo-e Art Museum (礫川浮世絵美術館, Koishikawa Ukiyo-e Bijutsukan) is located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Its collection includes ukiyo-e genre paintings from the Edo period, in particular, prints by Utamaro, Hokusai and Hiroshige. Every month the museum changes the ukiyo-e ...
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, the best known print in the series (20th century reprint). Mount Fuji is in the center distance.. Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Japanese: 富嶽三十六景, Hepburn: Fugaku Sanjūrokkei) is a series of landscape prints by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760–1849).
The earliest comprehensive historical and critical works on ukiyo-e came from the West, [54] and often denied Utamaro a place in the ukiyo-e canon. [52] Ernest Fenollosa's Masters of Ukioye of 1896 was the first such overview of ukiyo-e.
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (in Japanese: 名所江戸百景, romanized: Meisho Edo Hyakkei) is a series of 119 ukiyo-e prints begun and largely completed by the Japanese artist Hiroshige (1797–1858). The prints were first published in serialized form in 1856–59, with Hiroshige II completing the series after Hiroshige's death. It was ...
Ukiyo-e art flourished in Japan during the Edo period from the 17th to 19th centuries, and took as its primary subjects courtesans, kabuki actors, and others associated with the "floating world" lifestyle of the pleasure districts. Alongside paintings, mass-produced woodblock prints were a major form of the genre. [1]
Ukiyo-e Caricatures 1842-1905 Database of the Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Vienna. Over 400 prints of Kuniyoshi are included. Short biography at Artelino; Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters Gallery exhibition at New York's Japan Society featuring Kuniyoshi prints.