Uki-e
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uki-e-294-16746247
title:
Uki-e
text:
Uki-e 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 appl
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encyclopedia
description:
Japanese woodblock prints
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uki-e
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date modified:
2021-06-23T12:15:32Z
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