Japan – Edo period

Flatness (2-d); no shadowing;

stylization, abstraction (color, form; patterns);

contrast (patterns, curve/angular, land/water);

precise and delicate drawing

Edo period

UKIYO-E

(The floating world), Kyoto

Harunobu, Saying Goodbye, color woodblock, 18th century (Edo Period)

(1603-1868) (1853-opening to the west)

Harunobu, Geisha as Daruma Crossing the Sea, color woodblock, Mid-18th century (Edo Period)

Ukiyo-E

Impressionist Mary Cassatt’s work after going to the

1891 Japan art exhibition in Paris

Utamaro, Midnight: The Hours of the Rat; Mother and Sleepy Child, (Edo period), ca. 1790Polychrome woodblock print, 14 x 9”

Mary Cassat, Maternal Caress, 1891Drypoint and soft-ground etching, printed in color, 14 x 10”