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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.
Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese: 歌川 国貞; 1786 – 12 January 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代 歌川 豊国, Sandai Utagawa 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 Japan.
Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese: 菱川 師宣; 1618 – 25 July 1694) [1] was a Japanese artist known for popularizing the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock prints and paintings in the late 17th century. [2] He consolidated the works of scattered Japanese art styles and forged the early development of ukiyo-e. [3]
Omocha-e (玩具絵); ukiyo-e created as picture books and toys for children; Schools (流派): Schools of ukiyo-e artists; Senso-e (戰爭絵); prints depicting the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars; Shin-hanga (新版画, "New prints"); 20th century ukiyo-e revival prints; Shini-e (死絵); "death pictures" or "death portraits" Shita-e ...
"Father of ukiyo-e: Torii Kiyonobu I: 1664–1729 Printmaker [6] Sukenobu: 1682–1752 Ukiyo-e painter, Miyagawa school: Miyagawa Shunsui: fl. c. 1740-60s Ukiyo-e painter, son and student of Miyagawa Chōshun: Miyagawa Isshō: mid-18th century Painter, student of Miyagawa Chōshun: Okumura Masanobu: 1686–1764 Printmaker, Torii school ...
A bijinga hanging scroll painting by Kaigetsudō Ando.. Nikuhitsu-ga (肉筆画) is a form of Japanese painting in the ukiyo-e art style. The woodblock prints of this genre have become so famous in the West as to become almost synonymous with the term "ukiyo-e", but most ukiyo-e artists were painters as well as printmakers, with much the same style and subjects.
Toyoharu was the first to make the landscape a subject of ukiyo-e art, rather than just a background to figures and events. By the 1780s he had turned primarily to painting. The Utagawa school of art grew to dominate ukiyo-e in the 19th century with artists such as Utamaro, Hiroshige, and Kuniyoshi.
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Japanese: 富士三十六景, Hepburn: Fuji Sanjū-Rokkei) is the title of two series of woodblock prints by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hiroshige, depicting Mount Fuji in differing seasons and weather conditions from a variety of different places and distances.