Ukiyo-e[a] (浮世絵) 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 wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica.

Ukiyo-e Search provides an incredible resource: The ability to both search for Japanese woodblock prints by simply taking a picture of an existing print AND the ability to see similar prints across multiple collections of prints.

2025年2月27日 · ukiyo-e, one of the most important genres of art of the Tokugawa period (1603–1867) in Japan. The style is a mixture of the realistic narrative of the emaki (“picture scrolls”) produced in the Kamakura period and the mature decorative style of the Momoyama and Tokugawa periods.

Ukiyo-e is the movement in Japanese woodblock prints that depict idyllic narratives in the aesthetics of beauty, poetry, nature, spirituality, love, and sex.

2024年3月11日 · Ukiyo-e represents a crucial era of Japanese art from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The art form encapsulates the transient lifestyle and culture of Edo-period Japan. Ukiyo-e involved an evolution from simple prints to complex polychromatic art, featuring profound social and historical influences. Historical Context and Evolution

2024年5月19日 · Ukiyo-e, the genre of Japanese woodblock prints and paintings, flourished from the 17th through the 19th centuries. Known for their vivid colors and dynamic compositions, these artworks capture the “floating world” – a world of fleeting beauty and momentary pleasures.

Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that became popular in the 17th century through to the 19th century. The word roughly translates as “pictures of the floating world” and artists belonging to...

2020年8月27日 · Produced in their many thousands and hugely popular during the Edo period (1615 – 1868), these colourful woodblock prints, known as ukiyo-e, depicted scenes from everyday Japan. Ukiyo-e literally means 'pictures of the floating world'.

These pictures could be made in great quantity and featured popular scenes that appealed in particular to the wealthy townspeople of the period. Woodblock prints were initially used as early as the eighth century in Japan to disseminate texts, especially Buddhist scriptures.

The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance showcases the Library's spectacular holdings of Japanese "Ukiyo-e" (translated as pictures of the floating, or sorrowful, world) and is the first public viewing of this important and previously unseen collection.