ukiyo-e
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Japanese 浮世絵 (ukiyoe), from 浮 (uki, “floating, fleeting”) + 世 (yo, “world; era”) + 絵 (e, “image, picture”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ukiyo-e (plural ukiyo-e)
- (art) A Japanese painting or woodblock print depicting everyday life. [from 19th c.]
- 1946 January 20, “Approved by the Air Force”, in Time:
- Like many Ukiyo-e artists, Jacoulet hires woodcarvers and printers to convert his ideas into prints.
- 1958 April 2, The Times, p.11 col. F:
- The masters of Ukiyo-e, the woodblock print, like Utamaro, immortalized its great courtesans and its famous houses of prostitution.
- 2001, Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil:
- Starling looked past Carter, to an ukiyo-e woodcut of a Kabuki player.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]Japanese painting or woodblock print depicting everyday life
Further reading
[edit]- ukiyo-e on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Category:ukiyo-e on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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