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People crossing a bridge in slanting rain in a woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige

Ukiyo-e

Ukiyo-e was an Edo-period visual culture of prints and paintings depicting actors, beauties, landscapes, stories, and urban life.

Portrait of the elderly artist Katsushika Hokusai seated in profile

Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai was an Edo artist whose prints, books, drawings, and paintings transformed landscape imagery and visual culture.

Keisai Eisen woodblock print of an elegantly dressed woman at moon viewing

Iki

Iki is an Edo urban aesthetic of knowing, restrained allure and spirited sophistication, later analysed philosophically by Kuki Shūzō.