Examples of 'ukiyo-e' in a sentence

Meaning of "ukiyo-e"

Ukiyo-e is an artistic style originating from Japan, particularly during the Edo period. It is characterized by woodblock prints depicting scenes from everyday life
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  • A Japanese woodblock print or painting depicting everyday life.

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It was the largest ukiyo-e school of its period.
Ukiyo-e prints are made using this technique.
It is based on collections of ukiyo-e owned by the family.
Ukiyo-e artists quickly embraced the woodblock print.
They were all amateur models for ukiyo-e prints.
Drawings by ukiyo-e artists are extremely rare.
He then became a serious student of ukiyo-e.
Nearly every ukiyo-e master produced shunga at some point.
Every month the museum changes the ukiyo-e exhibition.
Ukiyo-e prints featured dramatic foreshortening and asymmetrical compositions.
It has been used in many ukiyo-e prints through history.
This series started a whole new style of landscape ukiyo-e.
The first ukiyo-e prints were produced with this technique.
He was first known for his nihonga and ukiyo-e paintings.
There were many ukiyo-e painters back in the period.

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Hiroshige was one of the last masters in the ukiyo-e tradition.
Ukiyo-e prints depicting namazu became very popular around this time.
The first presentation is devoted to the late period of the ukiyo-e.
Some ukiyo-e artists specialized in making paintings, but most works were prints.
The general story has been depicted in many mediums such as ukiyo-e prints.
Ukiyo-e wood prints were affordable to everyone because they could be mass-produced.
The production of such images kept most ukiyo-e artists very busy.
Ukiyo-e style of painting emerged calling for woodblock printing in the same time.
Standards for inclusion in the ukiyo-e canon rapidly evolved in the early literature.
E-hon books of illustrations were popular and continued be an important outlet for ukiyo-e artists.
Texts by leading scholars of shunga and ukiyo-e complete this treasure album of a book.
His work has come to be considered some of the greatest in the ukiyo-e genre.
American artist combines ukiyo-e and graffiti art in the coolest way possible.
He was originally a wood sculptor, and he carved the woodblocks for many ukiyo-e prints.
I mean, an ukiyo-e artist could never make ends meet without doing things like this.
Determining what is understood about the demographics of ukiyo-e consumption has required indirect means.
The ukiyo-e print was a commercial art form, and the publisher played an important role.
His portraits are easily among the most individualized and distinctive portrayals in all of ukiyo-e.
The ukiyo-e principals also play a heavy influence on her overarching style principal known as superflat.
It can be found several differences between ukiyo-e and western art from the same period.
You can follow the time periods while weaving through patterns of old maps and ukiyo-e.
The quality of shunga art varies, and few ukiyo-e painters remained aloof from the genre.
Because ukiyo-e prints were mass-produced, collecting them presents considerations different from the collecting of paintings.
His dramatic forms would guide the core of ukiyo-e style for the next eighty years.
Moronobu is considered the founder of the Ukiyo-e.
Through this display, you will come to understand that ukiyo-e is actually made through several processes.
All of the material used are traditional Ukiyo-e.
The earliest Ukiyo-e were black and white.
They are the most popular Ukiyo-e artists.
The birth of the Ukiyo-e leads to a new mode of production.
He is considered to be one of the greatest Ukiyo-e artists.
Ukiyo-e is the best known type of Japanese woodblock art print.
Your favourite type of art is Japanese ukiyo-e.
Artist recreates famous Japanese ukiyo-e paintings using fine wines.
Major printmaking traditions include that of Japan ukiyo-e.

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