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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 ukiyo-e series he produced include the following: Eight Views of Edo (several series) Eight Views of Ōmi (several series) Newly Published Perspective Pieces (Shinpan uki-e) Twelve Months by Two Artists, Toyokuni and Toyohiro (Toyokuni Toyohiro ryōga jūnikō), with Toyokuni; Untitled series of A Day in the Life of a Geisha
The title of the Ukiyo-e print series Edo-no-Hana Meisho-e translates into English as The Flowers of Edo: A Collection of Famous Places. [1] The Flowers of Edo was a phrase used to describe the finest features of everyday life, as experienced in the various districts of Japan’s Tokugawa capital during the mid-nineteenth century. [2]
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.
In guides rating ukiyo-e artists his name appeared in the top ten in 1865, 1867, and 1885, when he was in eighth, fifth, and fourth place, respectively. [9] In 1867, one year before the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate , he received an official commission by the government to contribute ten pictures to the 1867 World Exhibition in Paris. [ 12 ]
Uki-e (浮絵, "floating picture", implying "perspective picture") refers to a genre of ukiyo-e pictures that employs western conventions of linear perspective. Although they never constituted more than a minor genre, pictures in perspective were drawn and printed by Japanese artists from their introduction in the late 1730s through to the mid ...
Among his students were the famous ukiyo-e artists Shunchō, Shun'ei, and Hokusai. Most of Shunshō's actor prints are in the hoso-e (33 × 15 centimetres (13.0 × 5.9 in)) format common at the time, but he created a great number of works in triptych or pentaptych sets. However, what truly set his work apart from that of earlier artists was the ...
In fact, in ukiyo-e bijin-ga, it was not considered important that the picture resemble the facial features of the model, and the depiction of women in ukiyo-e bijin-ga is stylized rather than an attempt to create a realistic image; [4] For example, throughout the Edo period (1603–1867), married women had a custom of shaving their eyebrows ...