Ukiyo-e
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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 as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo
Maple Viewing at Takao (mid-16th century) by Kanō Hideyori is one of the earliest Japanese paintings to feature the lives of the common people.
Tokugawa Ieyasu established his government in the early 17th century in Edo (modern Tokyo).Portrait of Tokugawa Ieyasu, Kanō school painting, Kanō Tan'yū, 17th century
The Hikone screen may be the oldest surviving ukiyo-e work, dating to c. 1624–1644.
Early woodblock print, Hishikawa Moronobu, late 1670s or early 1680s
Hokusai
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Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wa
Ukiyo-e
…Hara, 13th station of The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, Hiroshige, 1833–34 Cuckoo and Azaleas, Hokusai, 1828 Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre, Kuniyoshi, c. 1844…
Self-portrait as an old man
Courtesan Asleep, a bijin-ga surimono print, c. late 18th to early 19th century
Fireworks in the Cool of Evening at Ryogoku Bridge in Edo, print, c. 1788–89
Image of bathers from the Hokusai Manga