Thehistoryofukiyoe

2021年8月19日 — Delve into the mesmerizing realm of Ukiyo-e art. Learn about its fascinating history, evolution over time, the meticulous process behind it.

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 ...

2023年7月27日 — The woodblock printing method originated in China, but it soon flourished as a unique method of printing images and Japanese art in Japan.

2023年12月30日 — The Floating World (Ukiyo-e) delineates the social life of the idle upper-class townspeople during Japan's Edo period (1603-1868). It ...

2024年1月9日 — Ukiyo-e, (Japanese: “pictures of the floating world”) one of the most important genres of art of the Tokugawa period (1603–1867) in Japan.

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, ukiyo-e began as hand-painted scrolls and screens of everyday life. Paintings often depicted popular recreations ...

Ukiyo-e was established during the Edo period and was cherished as a form of mass entertainment by common people across Edo (present-day Tokyo). Its origin ...

Ukiyo-e represents the final phase in the long evolution of Japanese genre painting. Drawing on earlier developments that had focused on human figures, ukiyo-e ...

2018年2月22日 — The Sōsaku-hanga, or creative prints, movement was launched in 1904 with the creation of Kanae Yamamoto's Fisherman (1904). The artist eschewed ...