Uki-e

Uki-e (浮絵, "floating picture", implying "perspective picture") refers to a genre of ukiyo-e pictures that employs western conventions of linear perspective. Although they never constituted more than a minor genre, pictures in perspective were drawn and printed by Japanese artists from their introduction in the late 1730s through to the mid-nineteenth century.^[1]

Around 1739,

. Toyoharu was also the first to adapt these techniques to Japanese subjects.

The interior of Kabuki theaters was a common subject in Uki-e prints. Interior scenes tend to be favored as it is easier to accurately apply one point perspective to architecture than to landscape.^[1]

See also

• Rangaku
• Yokohama-e
• Yōga (art)

Citations

References

• Bayou, Hélène (2004). Réunion des musées nationaux (ed.). Images du Monde flottant: Peintures et estampes japonaises XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles (in French).
  ISBN 978-2-7118-4821-8
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• Hockley, Allen (2006). Public Spectacles, Personal Pleasures: four centuries of Japanese prints from a Cincinnati collection. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum.
  ISBN 0-931537-29-0
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• Seiichi, Iwao; Teizō Iyanaga (2002). Dictionnaire historique du Japon, Volume 2 (in French). Maisonneuve & Larose.

External links

• Media related to Uki-e at Wikimedia Commons
• Short article about the genre