Glossary of ukiyo-e

• ; "blue picture"
• ; "red picture"
• ; "examined" character found in many censor seals
• ; a tool used to rub the back of a sheet of paper to pick up ink from the block
• ; primitive ukiyo-e style prints, usually printed in pink
• ; primitive ukiyo-e style prints, usually printed in pink and green
• ; pictures of beautiful women
• ; technique of applying a gradation of ink to a moistened block to vary lightness and darkness of a single colour
• Censor seal; from 1790 until 1876 all woodblock prints had to be examined by official censors, and marked with their seals
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• Edo period; dating from 1603 to 1868, the period when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate
• ; "picture book"
• ; a picture calendar
• ; colouring with a paintbrush
• ; powdered minerals or metals sprinkled onto a print during the production process
• Fushiga; satirical ukiyo-e pictures
• ; album
• ; "founder" prefix, used on a print to indicate the publisher
• Geisha; a common subject in ukiyo-e
• ; a print
• ; a publisher
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• ; a carver of woodblocks
• ; a print size about
• ; a colour block
• ; prints that can be viewed from either top or bottom
• The Tales of Ise; an, or collection of poems and associated narratives, dating from the Heian period
• ; a print that mimics a stone rubbing, with uninked images or text on a dark, usually black, background
• ; a technique for producing gradation achieved by sanding or abrading the edges of the carving
• ; ukiyo-e genre of the Meiji period that celebrated the Westernization of Tokyo and its people
• ; an diptych arranged one above the other
• ; paintings of flowers and birds
• ; the artist's tag, used on prints with a signature
• Kamigata; region of Japan referring to the cities of Kyoto and Osaka
• ; prints of a single colour coloured by stenciling. Prints produced entirely by stenciling, without woodblocks, are also called.
• ; dry printing, embossing
• ; style of woodblock carving imitating dry brushstrokes
• ; one of the Five Routes of the Edo period
• ; a method used in woodblock printmaking using mica powder to add sparkle
• ; "approved" character found in many censor seals
• ; a rough sketch
• ; prints with moveable parts
• ; frontispieces of books, especially woodblock printed frontispieces for Japanese romance novels and literary magazines published from the 1890s to the 1910s
• ; a print size about, sometimes called a "toy print"
• ; a print designed using graphical perspective techniques and viewed through a convex lens to produce a three-dimensional effect
• ; famous sites often depicted in ukiyo-e
• ; a subgenre of ukiyo-e that employs allusions, puns, and incongruities, often to parody classical art or events
• Mount Fuji; the highest mountain in Japan, a common subject
• ; warrior print
• ; woodcut prints of violent nature published in the late Edo and Meiji periods
• ; prints, produced in Nagasaki during the Edo period, that depict the port city of Nagasaki, the Dutch and Chinese who frequented it, and foreign curiosities such as exotic fauna and Dutch and Chinese ships
• ; prints depicting the Japanese mythological giant catfish, the
• ; a painting in the ukiyo-e style
• ; multi-coloured woodblock printing
• ; a print size about
• ; portrait prints, busts
• ; ukiyo-e created as picture books and toys for children
• Schools of ukiyo-e artists: Schools of ukiyo-e artists
• ; prints depicting the Sino-Japanese War|Sino-Japanese] and Russo-Japanese Wars
• ; 20th century ukiyo-e revival prints
• ; "death pictures" or "death portraits"
• ; final preparatory drawing pasted onto the block for printing
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• ; a polishing technique sometimes used to create a shiny surface on black areas in prints
• ; erotically themed art
• ; an early 20th-century art movement of woodblock printing
• Sumizuri-e; a type of monochromatic woodblock printing that uses only black ink
• ; privately commissioned prints for special occasions such as the New Year
• ; a printer
• ; primitive ukiyo-e style prints, usually printed in red
• ; a print in vertical or "portrait" format
• Tenpō Reforms; an array of economic policies introduced in 1842 by the Tokugawa Shogunate, precursor to Meiji Restoration
• ; the most important of the Five Routes of the Edo period
• ; prints on paddle-shaped hand fans
• ; a picture using linear perspective
• ; the culture of Edo-period Japan
• ; paintings painted with lacquer, and a printing style using ink that resembles the darkness and thickness of black lacquer
• ; Japanese poetry
• ; traditional Japanese paper
• ; prints of kabuki actors
• ; a print in horizontal or "landscape" format
• ; prints depicting non-East Asian foreigners and scenes of Yokohama.
• ; prints depicting ghosts, demons and other supernatural beings

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