Hello!
How are you? Today let's look at ukiyoe (浮世絵)! The picture at the top is a classic one by Kitagawa Utamaro, one of the most famous ukiyo-e artists, called Three Beauties of the Present Day (寛政三美人).
Do you think ukiyoe still has any impact on Japanese culture today? Perhaps in manga or anime? It might not seem that way - but ukiyoe did have a big impact on Western art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Activity/preparation
Look at the pictures below. What do you think of them? Do you think that manga and anime were influenced (影響した) by ukiyoe? What do you think of the impact that it had on Western art that you see below? Take some notes about your impressions of these pictures.
Bamboo Yards, Old Kyoubashi Bridge (Utagawa Hiroshige)
Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge (James McNeill Whistler)
Sudden Shower Over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake (Utagawa Hiroshige)
Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige) (Vincent van Gogh)
Have fun with these! (But before you go, here's one more picture to enjoy!)
Shiba Zoujouji (Kawase Hasui)
See you next time!
Images: Top - Three Beauties of the Present Day - By Utamaro - cgH3Mn22MIBngA at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21880055/Bamboo Yards, Old Kyobashi Bridge - By Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) - Online Collection of Brooklyn Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3790943/By ジェームズ・マクニール・ホイッスラー - Livre Peinture de paysage, de Norbert Wolf, Taschen, 2008. ISBN 9783822854655, パブリック・ドメイン, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8616218/Sudden Shower Over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake - By Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) - Online Collection of Brooklyn Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=226069/Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige) - By Vincent van Gogh - rwGc5ZWvzXZ0vA at Google Cultural Institute, zoom level maximum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13523165/Bottom - Shiba Zojoji - By Kawase Hasui, scanned by W.Schmidt - Collection Walter Schmidt, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23985180
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