The name Kanazawa Hakkei (lit. Eight Views of Kanazawa) is taken from the name of a series of Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, of eight places in the area, which were made between 1835 and 1836, by Ando Hiroshige.
Baiōken Eishun, 18th century ukiyo-e painter and print artist
Ukiyo, the urban lifestyle, especially the pleasure-seeking aspects, of Edo-period Japan (1600–1867)
Hiroshige is among the ukiyo-e artists whose work shows influence from the Kanō school.
Katsukawa school, school of Japanese ukiyo-e art, founded by Miyagawa Shunsui
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Katsukawa Shunshō (1726–1792), Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style, and the leading artist of the Katsukawa school
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Katsukawa Shunchō, designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints, active from c.
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Katsukawa Shunkō I (1743–1812), designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints in Edo (Tokyo)
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Katsukawa Shunsen, designer of books and ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints
While just as bloody and disturbing as the collection it is based on, Bloody Ukiyo-e also show cases a higher degree of full frontal nudity, sexual perversion and includes pop-culture references and modern real life events, such as painting a gun wielding Marc Bolan as a mercenary or the suicide of Adolf Hitler.
Though less known to the public than masters such as Sharaku and Hokusai, Masanobu has gained the regard of connoisseurs as one of the greatest ukiyo-e artists, held in esteem by Japanese collectors such as Kiyoshi Shibui and Seiichirō Takahashi, and Westerners such as Ernest Fenollosa, Arthur Davison Ficke, and James A. Michener.
Many of Maruo's illustrations depict graphic sex and violence and are therefore referred to as contemporary muzan-e (a subset of Japanese ukiyo-e depicting violence or other atrocities.) Maruo himself featured in a 1988 book on the subject with fellow artist Kazuichi Hanawa entitled Bloody Ukiyo-e (江戸昭和競作無惨絵英名二十八衆句), presenting their own contemporary works alongside the traditional prints of Yoshitoshi and Yoshiku.
A wonderful series of ukiyo-e containing 50 pictures depicting characters from Nanso Satomi Hakkenden and featuring leading kabuki actors was created by Utagawa Kunisada II.
While the Society now addresses all aspects of Japanese art and culture, it traces its origins to a small group of ukiyo-e print collectors in and around New York City in 1973, at a time when Parke-Bernet Galleries (later to merge with Sotheby's) had begun to develop a market for Japanese art.
Tsutaya Jūzaburō (1750-1797), woodblock publisher of ukiyo-e and popular illustrated books.