From Utamaro’s Three Beauties of the Present Day to Takashima Ohisa, The Tea House Beauty by Shuncho, here is a tour of the beauties of ukiyo-e. These prints served many purposes in Japan ...

A signature piece by famous Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro titled "Young Woman Blowing a Glass Pipe (poppin)" was discovered for the first time in 44 years, the Tokyo National Museum in the ...

Other notable works include Kitagawa Utamaro’s “Kaya no Tanoshimi ... meant the erotic art was free of censorship that targeted other ukiyo-e works, allowing painters, woodcarvers ...

Characterised by precise lines, luminous pigments, and depictions of kabuki actors, courtesans and landscapes, ukiyo-e became the defining art form of its time. Masters like Sharaku, Utamaro and ...

Some of the greatest artists of the time, including Kitagawa Utamaro and Katsushika Hokusai, employed ukiyo-e to depict Edo’s hedonistic ‘floating world’ of geisha, kabuki, sumo – and sex.

Is there an upcoming ukiyo-e artist adding a 21st-century flair to the genre? Nope. It’s all generative artificial intelligence. And it was fed 24,038 scans of actual pieces. The Evo-Ukiyoe ...

Ukiyo-e translates to "pictures (e ... Hiroshige, Kunisada and Utamaro, became household names. "[But] there were multiple individuals involved with the creation of the prints; an artist might ...

Vices surged; red-light districts emerged and flourished. Thus, though it had begun with the same principles as Pure Land Buddhism, in the end ukiyo-e would establish itself as one of the most ...

The rediscovered work is one of Utamaro's earliest ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints and is believed to have been created around 1792 to 1793, during the Kansei era (1789-1801). A nearly identical ...