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‖ ukiyo-e|ukijoˈjeː|
Also ukiyo-we, -ye, and without hyphen.
[Jap., f. ukiyo fleeting world (f. uku to float, go by fleetingly + yo world) + e picture.]
A Japanese art-form consisting of wood-block prints or paintings of scenes from everyday life simply treated; a picture belonging to this art-form. Usu. attrib.
1879Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan VII. 358 Its founder is still celebrated as the author of the Ukiyo-we or popular style. 1898L. Hearn Gleanings in Buddha-Fields v. 115 The Ukiyo-yé artist drew actualities, but not repellent or meaningless actualities... He looked for dominant laws..for the order of the beautiful as it was and is. 1915Dial LIX. 375/1 In the forty years or thereabout since the color prints by the Ukiyoe masters first came to the attention of art lovers..the circle of their ardent admirers has steadily widened. 1955N.Y. Times 24 Apr. 11-1. 9/1 Japanese tend to see things flatly. This is..most noticeable in the ukiyoe prints. 1957Encycl. Brit. XII. 966/2 Ukiyo-e grew to be almost exclusively the art of the populace of Edo. 1971Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Aug. 997/3 The ‘Pictures of the Passing World’, the ukiyo-e, which from the late seventeenth century constituted the latest and most inventive phase of the Popular School. 1983Sunday Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 26 June 31/2 The tradition of the Ukiyo-E print, which had been bought by a Japanese public uninfluenced by Western work, was effectively dead by the 1880s. |