ukiyo-e

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See also: ukiyoe and ukiyoé

English

WOTD – 9 June 2011

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Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 浮世絵 (ukiyoe), from 浮 (uki, “floating, fleeting”) + 世 (yo, “world; era”) + 絵 (e, “image, picture”).

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Noun

ukiyo-e (plural ukiyo-e)

  1. (art) A Japanese painting or woodblock print depicting everyday life.
    • 1946 January 20, “Approved by the Air Force”, in Time:
      Like many Ukiyo-e artists, Jacoulet hires woodcarvers and printers to convert his ideas into prints.
    • 1958 April 2, The Times, p.11 col. F:
      The masters of Ukiyo-e, the woodblock print, like Utamaro, immortalized its great courtesans and its famous houses of prostitution.
    • 2001, Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil:
      Starling looked past Carter, to an ukiyo-e woodcut of a Kabuki player.

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