In fact his " patrons ... were so high in the social hierarchy that it is hard to believe that Matabei could have created the Ukiyo-e tradition ", and he is better regarded as a " great independent artist of the Tosa tradition ".

Sekien originally was trained in the aristocratic Kanō School of painting, but in middle age he started to lean toward the popular Ukiyo-e, a genre of Japanese woodblock prints.

Ukiyo-e were often used for illustrations in these books, but came into their own as single-sheet prints ( e. g., postcards or kakemono-e ) or were posters for the kabuki theater.

Ukiyo-e prints were made using the following procedure:

Ukiyo-e, literally " pictures of the floating world ", is a genre of woodblock prints that exemplifies the characteristics of pre-Meiji Japanese art.

Ezra Pound began his long engagement with East Asian culture in 1909 via viewings of Ukiyo-e prints in the company of the curator Laurence Binyon at London's British Museum, giving rise to the pronounced Imagist tendency to offer poetic visions of Japan via ekphrastic descriptions of such artworks.

Ukiyo-e woodblock prints by Toyohara Chikanobu | Yōshū Chikanobu, 1888

Ukiyo-e prints were considered by the Japanese as mass commercial products, as opposed to the European view of ukiyo-e as fine art during the climax of Japonisme.

Ukiyo-e woodblock prints had always been considered as mere reproductions for mass commercial consumption, as opposed to the European view of ukiyo-e as art, during the climax of Japonisme.

) Maruo himself featured in a 1988 book on the subject with fellow artist Kazuichi Hanawa entitled Bloody Ukiyo-e ( 江戸昭和競作無惨絵英名二十八衆句 ), presenting their own contemporary works alongside the traditional prints of Yoshitoshi and Yoshiku.

Ukiyo-e were affordable because they could be mass-produced.

Ukiyo-e, as practiced by artists like Shunshō, focused on images of the courtesans and Kabuki actors who were popular in Japan's cities at the time.

Origami, Shodo, and Ukiyo-e were all produced using washi.

Both were patronized from the Japanese courts around the same time period, and specialized in Yamato-e and Ukiyo-e paintings.

), Ukiyo-e Studies and Pleasures, A Collection of Essays on the Art of Japanese Prints, The Hague, Society for Japanese Arts and Crafts, 1978.

Ukiyo-e artists owed a stable livelihood to such customs, and producing a piece of shunga for a high-ranking client could bring them sufficient funds to live on for about six months.

Image: MiyagawaIsshoScene. jpg | Miyagawa Isshō, untitled Ukiyo-e painting, Japanese

In Japonisme, late-19th-century artists like the Impressionists, Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Whistler admired traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e artists like Hokusai and Hiroshige and their work was influenced by it.

An Ukiyo-e print depicting the Battle of Azukizaka ( 1564 ) | Battle of Azukizaka.

Ukiyo-e can be categorized into two periods: the Edo period, which comprises ukiyo-e from its origins in the 1620s until about 1867, when the Meiji period began, lasting until 1912.

Roots of the Ukiyo-e ; Early Woodcuts of the Floating World.

* Ukiyo-e Techniques, an interactive collection of videos and animations demonstrating the techniques of master printmaker Keiji Shinohara.

Hokusai: Genius of the Japanese Ukiyo-e. Kodansha International, Tokyo.

File: Ukiyo-e dragon 2. jpg | Dragon, Japanese ukiyo-e woodcut, c. 1750-1900.

Ukiyo-e woodblock print of warrior about to perform seppuku, from the Edo period.

* Ukiyo-e Caricatures 1842-1905 Database of the Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Vienna.

He is widely recognized as the last great master of Ukiyo-e, a type of Japanese woodblock printing.

In the 1970s, Amano studied the artworks of the late 19th century and early 20th century European movement of Art Nouveau, as well as the ancient Japanese hand woodblock printing work of Ukiyo-e.

Ukiyo-e painting from Tale of Genji, ch.

was a Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style.

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Drawn from life by the historian Matthew Paris for his Chronica Majora, it can be seen in his bestiary at Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with an accompanying text revealing that at the time, Europeans believed that elephants did not have knees and so were unable to get up if they fell over.

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