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    Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects...
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    Ukiyo (浮世, 'floating/fleeting/transient world') is the Japanese term used to describe the urban lifestyle and culture, especially the pleasure-seeking...
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    lit. 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa') is a woodblock print by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, created in late 1831 during the Edo period of Japanese...
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  • The Ukiyo-e Ruikō (浮世絵類考, "Various Thoughts on Ukiyo-e") is a Japanese collection of commentaries and biographies of ukiyo-e artists. It did not appear...
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    October 1760 – 10 May 1849), known mononymously as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. He is best...
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    The Japan Ukiyo-e Museum (日本浮世絵博物館, Nihon Ukiyo-e Hakubutsukan)(JUM) is a privately owned Japanese art museum in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture. It holds...
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    Shunga (category Ukiyo-e genres)
    as a kind of ukiyo-e, often in woodblock print format. While rare, there are also extant erotic painted handscrolls which predate ukiyo-e. Translated literally...
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    of modernization that saw ukiyo-e as both old-fashioned and laborious to produce compared to Western technologies. Ukiyo-e was a primary part of the wave...
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  • The Torii school (鳥居派, -ha) was a school of ukiyo-e painting and printing founded in Edo. The primary producers of kabuki theater signboards and other...
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    Utamaro (category Ukiyo-e artists)
    most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful...
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  • Ukiyo-e artists may be organized into schools, which consist of a founding artist and those artists who were taught by or strongly influenced by him....
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  • embarrassing public confrontation with the outspoken director. In October 2006 Ukiyo-e Cruel Story was shown as part of a Takechi retrospective, and it was released...
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    popular Kabuki play, Yotsuya Kaidan soon became a popular subject for ukiyo-e artists as well. In 1826, the same year the play opened at Sumiza Theater...
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    1860s that ukiyo-e prints gained popularity in Europe. Western artists were intrigued by the original use of color and composition. Ukiyo-e prints featured...
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    Shin-hanga (category Ukiyo-e genres)
    revitalized the traditional ukiyo-e art rooted in the Edo and Meiji periods (17th–19th century). It maintained the traditional ukiyo-e collaborative system (hanmoto...
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    Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (category Ukiyo-e artists)
    Yoshitoshi has widely been recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock printing and painting. He is also regarded as one of...
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  • description of ukiyo-e (浮世絵)-style Japanese woodblock prints and paintings. For a list of print sizes, see below. Aizuri-e (藍摺絵); "blue picture" Aka-e (赤絵); "red...
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    and dies. Like many kabuki plays, Okiku was a popular subject matter for ukiyo-e artists. In 1830, Katsushika Hokusai included her as one of the kaidan...
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  • Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi), in the Hōeidō edition (1833–1834), is a series of ukiyo-e woodcut prints created by Utagawa Hiroshige after his first travel along...
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    Kunisada (category Ukiyo-e artists)
    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...
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  • "Father of ukiyo-e Torii Kiyonobu I 1664–1729 Printmaker Sukenobu 1682–1752 Ukiyo-e painter, Miyagawa school Miyagawa Shunsui fl. c. 1740-60s Ukiyo-e painter...
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    Invoked by Princess Takiyasha (Japanese: 相馬の古内裏 妖怪がしゃどくろと戦う大宅太郎光圀) is an ukiyo-e woodblock triptych by Japanese artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798–1861). Kuniyoshi...
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  • Ukiyo-zōshi (浮世草子, "books of the floating world") is the first major genre of popular Japanese fiction, written between the 1680s and 1770s in Kyoto and...
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    Sharaku (category Ukiyo-e artists)
    Tōshūsai Sharaku (Japanese: 東洲斎 写楽; active 1794–1795) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, known for his portraits of kabuki actors. Neither his true...
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    Woodblock printing in Japan (category Ukiyo-e)
    in Japan (木版画, mokuhanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books...
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    in the ukiyo-e style popular through the Edo period (1603–1867) and into the beginnings of the 20th century. Most strictly, the term yakusha-e refers...
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    volumes from 1814. The book is a work of shunga (erotic art) within the ukiyo-e genre. The image depicts a woman, evidently an ama (a shell diver), enveloped...
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    Muzan-e in 1988 with an art book entitled Bloody Ukiyo-e. While just as bloody and disturbing as the collection it is based on, Bloody Ukiyo-e also show...
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    The Ukiyo-e Ōta Memorial Museum of Art (浮世絵 太田記念美術館, Ukiyo-e Ōta kinen bijutsukan) is a museum that opened in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, in January 1980. It...
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    (Japanese: 木版画, moku hanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre; however, it was also used very widely for printing illustrated...
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