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Japanese Ukiyo-e Art
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Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period, best known for 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'.
Utagawa Hiroshige
Renowned for his landscapes, Hiroshige was a master of the ukiyo-e genre, with prints such as 'The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō'.
Kitagawa Utamaro
Famed for his beautiful portrayal of women, Utamaro was a prominent ukiyo-e artist known for his bijinga genre of prints.
Sharaku
Active only for a short period at the end of the 18th century, Sharaku is noted for his portraits of kabuki actors.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Yoshitoshi was considered the last great master of ukiyo-e and is known for his prints with dramatic and imaginative subject matter.
Chōbunsai Eishi
A samurai and ukiyo-e artist, Eishi left his service to the shogunate to pursue art, excelling in elegant portrayals of tall, slender women.
Keisai Eisen
Eisen was an ukiyo-e artist who created a significant number of landscapes and portraits of women.
Suzuki Harunobu
An innovator in ukiyo-e, he was among the first to produce full-color prints in 1765, known as nishiki-e.
Kawase Hasui
A prominent Shin-hanga movement artist, Hasui’s work focused on landscapes and he is best known for his series 'Twenty Views of Tokyo'.
Ohara Koson
Koson was a Japanese painter and printmaker of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known especially for his kachō-e (bird-and-flower prints).
Yoshida Hiroshi
An artist of the Shin-hanga movement, Hiroshi combined Western-style painting with Japanese woodblock printing traditions in his landscapes.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
A woodblock print by Hokusai, this is probably the most famous work of ukiyo-e; it depicts a huge wave threatening boats off the coast near Kanagawa.
The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
This series of prints by Hiroshige portrays the stations of the Tōkaidō, the road connecting Edo with Kyoto, the imperial capital.
The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife
A famous woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai, it is an erotic image depicting a woman and two octopuses.
Bijin-ga
A genre of ukiyo-e that focuses on depictions of beautiful women, often emphasizing fashion and popular beauty standards of the Edo period.
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