List of ukiyo-e terms

This is a list of terms frequently encountered in the description of -style Japanese woodblock prints and paintings. For a list of print sizes, see below.

* ; "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 (value) 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
* ; a print size about
* ; a print size about
* ; dating from 1603 to 1868, the period when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate
* ; "picture book"
* ; colouring with a paintbrush
* ; powdered minerals or metals sprinkled onto a print during the production process
* ; album
* ; "founder" prefix, used on a print to indicate the publisher
* ; a common subject in ukiyo-e
* ; a print
* ; a publisher
* ; a print size about
* ; a carver of woodblocks
* ; a print size about
* ; a colour block
* ; prints that can be viewed from either top or bottom
* ; 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
* ; an diptych arranged one above the other (also a hanging scroll painting)
* ; paintings of flowers and birds
* ; the artist's tag, used on prints with (or instead of) a signature
* ; region of Japan referring to the cities of Kyoto and Osaka
* ; prints of a single colour (usually black) 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
* ; "approved" character found in many censor seals
* ; a rough sketch
* ; prints with moveable parts
* ; a print size about , sometimes called a "toy print"
* ; the highest mountain in Japan, a common subject
* ; warrior print
* ; 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
* : Schools of ukiyo-e artists
* ; prints depicting the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars
* ; 20th century ukiyo-e revival prints
* ; final preparatory drawing pasted onto the block for printing
* ; a print size about , often used for
* ; a polishing technique sometimes used to create a shiny surface on black areas in prints
* ; erotically themed art
* ; 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
* ; 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 (1600–1867)
* ; 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.

Print sizes

The Japanese terms for vertical (portrait) and horizontal (landscape) formats for images are and , respectively.

Below is a table of common Tokugawa-period print sizes. Sizes varied depending on the period, and those given are approximate they are based on the pre-printing paper sizes, and paper was often trimmed after printing.

See also

* Schools of ukiyo-e artists
* Ukiyo-e
* Woodblock printing in Japan

References

Citations

Sources
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* Lane, Richard. (1978). ''Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press.
OCLC 5246796
* Newland, Amy Reigle. (2005). ''Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints.'' Amsterdam: Hotei.
OCLC 61666175
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External links

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