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  • Certainly, in ukiyo-e portraiture, artists convey identity and character primarily through dress and symbols.

    How Japan Saw Us Lee Lawrence 2010

  • Hagi Prefectural Art Museum The image at right was made earlier in his career (c. 1800), when he focused on the demimonde and worked in a style known as ukiyo-e ( ' pictures of the floating world ' ).

    Photo-Op: View Finder 2010

  • Brown appropriates the Japanese style of woodblock printing known as ukiyo-e and paints a juxtaposition of cultures.

    Cleveland Scene 2010

  • It revolved around "ukiyo", the floating world of the city pleasure quarters and theaters that was officially off-limits to samurai.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • For Director Morita, he was greatly influnced by traditional Japanese artform such as ukiyo-e and art from the Choushuu era and the artistic sense these two artforms displayed.

    Anime Nano! 2008

  • For Director Morita, he was greatly influnced by traditional Japanese artform such as ukiyo-e and art from the Choushuu era and the artistic sense these two artforms displayed.

    Anime Nano! 2008

  • For Director Morita, he was greatly influnced by traditional Japanese artform such as ukiyo-e and art from the Choushuu era and the artistic sense these two artforms displayed.

    AnimeBlogger.net Antenna 2008

  • Cartoonist Steve Bialik has gone and mixed Japanese ukiyo-e style art with the best thing that ever happened inside of George Lucas 'brain, to bring us Samurai Wars.

    April 2010 2010

  • Cartoonist Steve Bialik has gone and mixed Japanese ukiyo-e style art with the best thing that ever happened inside of George Lucas 'brain, to bring us Samurai Wars.

    Samurai Wars Is All Kinds Of Awesome 2010

  • So while artists in 1860s Paris were discovering the beauty of Japanese "floating world" — or ukiyo-e — woodblock prints, many Japanese artists were heading to Yokohama, scouring European publications and creating their own genre of exotica: the Yokohama-e.

    How Japan Saw Us Lee Lawrence 2010

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