Every Movement / Japan c. 1670 to 1900

Ukiyo-e

Flat colour, cropped frames, the floating world. Woodblock prints for ordinary people that reach Paris in the 1860s and change everything.

The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, c. 1831. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
When
c. 1670 to 1900
Where
Edo
Who
Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro, Sharaku
Source
Wikipedia ↗ / Museum file on Commons ↗
Grew out of
← Song dynasty landscape
Led to
Impressionism →Post-Impressionism →Art Nouveau →