uki-e

genre of Japanese images

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Abstract is: 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. Around 1739, Okumura Masanobu studied European engravings to learn the rules of perspective. His engravings found their way to Japan either through Dejima or China. Masanobu was the first to apply the term Uki-e to perspective images, and Utagawa Toyoharu fully developed the form in the late 1750s when he produced colored woodblock copies of engravings after Canaletto and Guardi. 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.

Wikimedia Commons category is Uki-e

uki-e is …
instance of (P31):
art movementQ968159

sublass of (P279):
ukiyo-eQ185905

External links are
P1014Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID300114381
P2581BabelNet ID02050332n
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P1417Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDart/uki-e
P646Freebase ID/m/0bmc86t
P9080JAANUS IDu/ukie

P495country of originJapanQ17
P61discoverer or inventorOkumura MasanobuQ3350120
P582end time1900-01-01
P571inception1730-01-01
P1814name in kanaうきえ

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Q3350120Okumura MasanobumovementP135
Q106312686A Game of Hand Sumo in the New YoshiwaragenreP136

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