A Brief Introduction
to
Ukiyo-e
byTefel 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 Eishic. 1796
The Courtesan Yosooi Writing a Letter to a Lover
Kitagawa Utamaroearly 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
Hokusai
Moronobu
Moronobu
Hokusai
Commodore Perry arrives in Japan, 1853
Emperor Matsuhito
1868 – The Meiji Restoration
Western Traders at YokohamaHashimoto Sadahide
Picture of Prosperous AmericaUtagawa Hiroshige II
Yokohama-e
“Poster Art”
“Wrapping Paper”
La Japonaise, 1876Claude Monet
“Japonisme”
Paris, 1890
Beaux ArtsExhibition
James McNeill Whistler Hiroshige
Toulouse-Lautrec
The Yellow Christ1889
Paul Gauguin
MARY CASSATT
Woman Washing HairAfter the Bath: Woman Drying Her Feet
Edgar Degas
James McNeill Whistler James McNeill Whistler
Kuniyoshi
Kuroda Seiki
MaikoMeiji Period, 1893
Manga Anime
Key Points
• Ukiyo-e = Pictures of the Floating World
• Woodblock prints
• Flourished in Tokugawa Period (1603 – 1867)
The End