A Brief Introduction to Ukiyo-e by Tefel Hall
Ukiyo = Floating World Ukiyo-e = Pictures of the Floating World
Warring States Period (1460 – 1600) Tokugawa Period (1603 – 1867) Meiji Restoration, 1867
Edo (Tokyo)
Yoshiwara = The Pleasure Quarter
Yoshiwara
Kabuki Theater
Bunraku Puppet Theater
Sumo
Tea House
Ukiyo = Floating World = Pleasure Quarter
“Stars of the Kabuki Theater”
Courtesans
Horunobu
Utamaro
The Courtesan Nakagawa of the Matsubaya Teahouse Chobunsai Eishi c. 1796
The Courtesan Yosooi Writing a Letter to a Lover Kitagawa Utamaro early 1800s
Yabu Street Flower Viewing at Askayama Hiroshige
Fleet of Ashikagawa Takauji Preparing for Battle Sadahide
Ohara Koson Crow on a Snowy Branch
Katsushika Hokusai
Hokusai
Moronobu
Hokusai
Commodore Perry arrives in Japan, 1853
Emperor Matsuhito 1868 – The Meiji Restoration
Western Traders at Yokohama Hashimoto Sadahide Picture of Prosperous America Utagawa Hiroshige II Yokohama-e
“Poster Art”
“Wrapping Paper”
La Japonaise, 1876 Claude Monet “Japonisme”
Paris, 1890 Beaux Arts Exhibition
James McNeill Whistler Hiroshige
Toulouse-Lautrec
The Yellow Christ 1889 Paul Gauguin
MARY CASSATT
Woman Washing Hair After the Bath: Woman Drying Her Feet Edgar Degas
James McNeill Whistler Kuniyoshi
Kuroda Seiki Maiko Meiji Period, 1893
Manga Anime
Key Points Ukiyo-e = Pictures of the Floating World Woodblock prints Flourished in Tokugawa Period (1603 – 1867)
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