📚 Ukiyo-e, noun.
🔉 /uːˌkiːjəʊˈeɪ/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition (mass noun): A school of Japanese art depicting subjects from everyday life, dominant in the 17th–19th centuries.
❗️ Examples:
1. The prints have a lot of color graduation instead of plain even color areas that are so typical for classical Japanese ukiyo-e.
2. The origins of Japanese woodblock prints or ukiyo-e go back to the middle of the 17th century.
3. Sukeroku is frequently depicted in ukiyo-e, easily recognized by his stylish purple headband.
4. Kunichika was one of the old-style artists of ukiyo-e towards the end of the nineteenth century.
5. And they are written for the beginners to the subject of ukiyo-e and for experts alike.
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