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Nishiki-e (錦絵, "brocade picture") is a type of Japanese multi-coloured woodblock printing; the technique is used primarily in ukiyo-e. It was invented in the 1760s, and perfected and popularized by the printmaker Suzuki Harunobu , who produced many nishiki-e prints between 1765 and his death five years later.
These Nishiki models, though manufactured outside Japan (e.g., in Taiwan, by Giant Bicycles and possibly in Italy by Colnago, Olmo or Viner) often carried the name Nashiki and some of the same model names as had been used on the Kuwahara-built bicycles. [7] The brand name Nishiki was retired by Derby in 2001 in North America. [8]
The new technique depended on using notches and wedges to hold the paper in place and keep the successive color printings in register. Harunobu was the first ukiyo-e artist to consistently use more than three colors in each print. Nishiki-e, unlike their predecessors, were full-color images. As the technique was first used in a calendar, the ...
Hazaemon Ichimura XIII as Benten-kozo Kikunosuke by Toyokuni Utagawa III "Aoto Zōshi Hana no Nishiki-e" (青砥稿花紅彩画), as the original and fullest version of this play is known, is a tale in five acts of the shiranamimono (tales of thieves) sub-category of the kizewamono (rough contemporary piece) genre of kabuki plays.
The "full-color" technique, called nishiki-e in its fully developed form, spread rapidly, and was used widely for sheet prints from the 1760s on. Text was nearly always monochrome, and many books continued to be published with monochrome illustrations sumizuri-e , but the growth of the popularity of ukiyo-e brought with it demand for ever ...
ukiyo-e is based on kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, beautiful women, landscapes of sightseeing spots, historical tales, and so on, and Hokusai and Hiroshige are the most famous artists. In the 18th century, Suzuki Harunobu established the technique of multicolor woodblock printing called nishiki-e and greatly developed Japanese woodblock ...
Teeth blackening. Nishiki-e by Utagawa Kunisada, 1820, from the series Mirrors of the modern boudoir.. Ohaguro (Japanese: お歯黒, pronounced, lit. ' black teeth ') is the name given in Japan to the custom of blackening one's teeth with a solution of iron filings and vinegar.
Many nishiki-e. [53] 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.