Japan: from scrolls to ukiyo-e
The format, workshop and audience help to understand the image.
Key ideas
Japanese art includes Buddhist sculpture, screens, scroll paintings, ceramics, and printed graphics. Ukiyo-e is associated with urban culture of the Edo period: actors, famous places, entertainment and everyday images. Not all Japanese works belong to this genre.
Looking deeper
Color woodcuts were created by the collaboration of an artist, a carver, a printer, and a publisher. Flatness, expressive outline, and unexpected perspective influenced 19th-century European art. This exchange must be considered in conjunction with the history of trade and collecting.
Hokusai, series "Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji"; Hiroshige, views of roads and cities.
Find the work in the museum's official catalog and start with a description of the visible details.Name the contribution of each participant in the creation of the print.
External educational material or museum catalogue. The above review is not a literal translation of the source.