5604 x 8340 px | 47,4 x 70,6 cm | 18,7 x 27,8 inches | 300dpi
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Ukiyo-e (浮世絵, Ukiyo-e?), "pictures of the floating world", is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theatre and pleasure quarters. It is the main artistic genre of woodblock printing in Japan. The "floating world" (ukiyo) refers to the impetuous urban culture that bloomed that were a world unto themselves. The art form rose to great popularity in the metropolitan culture of Edo (Tokyo) during the second half of the 17th century, originating with the single-color works of Hishikawa Moronobu in the 1670s. At first, only India ink was used, then some prints were manually colored with a brush, but in the 18th century Suzuki Harunobu developed the technique of polychrome printing to produce nishiki-e.
