Tuesday, March 02, 2004

Ukiyo-e

(Japanese: �pictures of the floating world�), one of the most important genres of art of the Tokugawa period (1603 - 1867) in Japan. The style is a mixture of the realistic narrative of the emaki (�picture scrolls�) produced in the Kamakura period and the mature decorative style of the Momoyama and Tokugawa periods. The ukiyo-e style also has about it something of both native and foreign

posted by TiredKnife @ 10:11 AM