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    Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th to 19th centuries, known for woodblock prints and paintings depicting scenes of everyday life such as sumo wrestlers, history, folk tales, landscapes, travel, flora and fauna. Artists in this genre produced woodblock prints and paintings capturing images of "the floating world" using a technique called woodblock printing.

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    Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th to 19th centuries, known for woodblock prints and paintings depicting scenes of everyday life such as sumo wrestlers, history, folk tales, landscapes, travel, flora and fauna. Artists in this genre produced woodblock prints and paintings capturing images of "the floating world" using a technique called woodblock printing.

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    Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th to 19th centuries, known for woodblock prints and paintings depicting scenes of everyday life such as sumo wrestlers, history, folk tales, landscapes, travel, flora and fauna. Artists in this genre produced woodblock prints and paintings capturing images of "the floating world" using a technique called woodblock printing.

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    UKIYO-E

    (JAPANESE PAINTING)
    PAINTING
    AND
    WOODBLOCK PRINTING
    Ukiyo-e
    is a genre of Japanese art which
    flourished from the 17th through 19th
    centuries. Its artists produced 
    woodblock prints and paintings.
    •In 1879, ukiyo-e is
    defined as ‘’above’’
    •History and
    Etymology (ukiyo
    means world and life
    while e is picture)
    •The term uki-e translates
    as"pictures of the floating
    world".
    SUMO WRESTLER
    SCENES FROM HISTORY
    FOLK TALES
    LANDSCAPES
    TRAVEL SCENES
    FLORA AND FAUNA
    JAPANESE
    PAINTING
    WOODBLOCK
    PRINTING

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