Megane-e
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In Japanese art, a megane-e is a print designed using graphical perspective techniques and viewed through a convex lens to produce a three-dimensional effect. The term derives from the French vue d'op
Some young women using a megane-e device Harunobu, c. 1760s
Uki-e
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Uki-e 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 prin
Megane-e
…perspective techniques and applied them to his painting. He gained an interest in making ukiyo-e prints through the artist Utagawa Toyoharu, who produced uki-e 'floating pictures' using linear perspective techniques. Ōkyo began making uki-e prints for viewing through a convex lens: megane-e. Ōkyo later dismissed…
Act Four (Shindamme) from the series Uki-e Chūshingura (c. 1820s), Utagawa Kuninao Collection the Cincinnati Art Museum