ukiyo-e
Noun
Meaning
ukiyo-e (plural ukiyo-e)
A Japanese woodblock print or painting depicting everyday life. [from 19th c.]
Examples
As a result, many ukiyo-e artists designed travel scenes and pictures of nature, especially birds and flowers.sfn Landscapes had been given limited attention since Moronobu, and they formed an important element in the works of Kiyonaga and Shuncho.
Following the war, thinking turned to the importance of ukiyo-e painting and making direct connections with 17th-century Yamato-e paintings; this viewpoint sees Matabei as the genre's originator, and is especially favoured in Japan.
Cranes from Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing By 1800, Hokusai was further developing his use of ukiyo-e for purposes other than portraiture.
His sensuous beauties generally are considered the finest and most evocative bijinga in all of ukiyo-e.
Detailed records in Edo were kept in a wide variety of courtesans, actors, and sumo wrestlers, but no such records pertaining to ukiyo-e remain—or perhaps ever existed.
His ukiyo-e transformed the art form from a style of portraiture focused on the courtesans and actors popular during the Edo Period in Japan's cities into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals.