a brief introduction to ukiyo-e by tefel hall. ukiyo = floating world ukiyo-e = pictures of the...

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