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Toggle navigation Ukiyo-e Search. ... Title: from the series Customs of the Floating World: A Contest of Beautiful Women (Ukiyo fûzoku bijo kurabe) Date: Japanese, Edo period. Details: More information... Source: Museum of Fine Arts Browse all 37,142 prints... Download Image ...
Art. Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. The term “ukiyo-e” means “pictures of the floating world” in Japanese, and refers to a style of woodblock prints and paintings that depicted everyday life in Japan during the Edo period. Edo period. (2023, March 16).
The Floating World of Ukiyo-E Exhibition Home. September 27, 2001–January 19, 2002. This exhibition showcases the Library's spectacular holdings of Japanese prints, books, and drawings from the 17th to the 19th centuries. These works are complemented by related works from the Library's collections created by Japanese and Westerns artists into ...
Images from the floating world : the Japanese print : including an illustrated dictionary of ukiyo-e. Responsibility Richard Lane. Imprint New York : Dorset Press, 1982, ©1978. Physical description 364 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm Collection Patrick & Darle Maveety collection on Asian art.
Ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e (浮世絵), "pictures of the floating world", is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints. They were produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries and showed landscapes, tales from history, the theatre, and brothels. It is the main artistic genre of woodblock printing in Japan.
The Edo Period (1603-1868) in Japan was a time of great change. The merchant class was growing in size, wealth, and power, and artists and craftsmen mobilized to answer the demands and desires of this growing segment of society. Perhaps the most well known art form that gained popularity during this period was the woodblock print, which is often referred to as ukiyo-e prints.
Floating world: ‘ukiyo-e’ Japanese prints focuses on the concept of ukiyo, which means ‘floating world’, and refers to the fleeting pleasures of everyday life.It explores the city of Edo, modern-day Tokyo, through two themes that illustrate the popular culture of the city at the time: female beauty, in the figure of the courtesan, and contemplation of the natural world.
