A Brief
Introduction
to
Ukiyo-e
by
Tefel 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 Eishi
c. 1796
The Courtesan
Yosooi Writing a
Letter to a Lover
Kitagawa Utamaro
early 1800s
Hiroshige
Flower Viewing
at Askayama
Yabu Street
Fleet of
Ashikagawa
Takauji
Preparing
for Battle
Sadahide
Crow on a Snowy Branch
Ohara Koson
Katsushika
Hokusai
Hokusai
Hokusai
Moronobu
Moronobu
Hokusai
Commodore Perry arrives in Japan, 1853
Emperor Matsuhito
1868 – The Meiji Restoration
Yokohama-e
Western Traders at Yokohama
Hashimoto Sadahide
Picture of Prosperous America
Utagawa Hiroshige II
“Poster Art”
“Wrapping Paper”
“Japonisme”
La Japonaise, 1876
Claude Monet
Paris, 1890
Beaux Arts
Exhibition
Hiroshige
James McNeill Whistler
Toulouse-Lautrec
Paul Gauguin
The Yellow Christ
1889
MARY CASSATT
Edgar Degas
Woman Washing Hair
After the Bath:
Woman Drying Her Feet
Kuniyoshi
James McNeill Whistler
Maiko
Meiji Period, 1893
Kuroda Seiki
Manga
Anime
Key Points
• Ukiyo-e = Pictures of the Floating World
• Woodblock prints
• Flourished in Tokugawa Period (1603 – 1867)
The End