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What does ukiyo-e mean?

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Noun
  1. A Japanese woodblock print or painting depicting everyday life. [from 19th c.]
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The woman has, since the origins of ukiyo-e prints, constituted one of the themes of choice among designers, meeting public support.
And they are written for the beginners to the subject of ukiyo-e and for experts alike.
When we speak of ukiyo-e in its strict sense, we are generally referring to single sheet prints.
Kunichika was one of the old-style artists of ukiyo-e towards the end of the nineteenth century.
Toshusai Sharaku was a rogue artist during the famous ukiyo-e period of polychrome wood-block printmaking in Japan's 17th to 19th centuries.
The majority of artists from the ukiyo-e school produced such paintings in tandem with carrying out drawings for the engraving.

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