List of ukiyo-e terms

• Aizuri-e; blue picture
• Aka-e; red picture
• Aratame; "examined" character found in many censor seals
• Baren ; a tool used to rub the back of a sheet of paper to pick up ink from the block
• Benizuri-e; "crimson picture" primitive ukiyo-e style prints usually printed in pink and green
• Bijin-ga; pictures of beautiful women
• Bokashi ; technique of applying a gradation of ink to a moistened block to vary lightness and darkness of a single colour
• Censor seal from 1790 until 1876 all woodblock prints had to be examined by official censors, and marked with their seals
• Chūban; a print size about 7 by 10 inches
• Chūtanzaku; a print size about 14 by 5 inches
• Edo period; dating from 1603 to 1868, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate
• E-hon; picture book
• Fudezaishiki; colouring with a paintbrush
• Furikake; sprinkling of powdered minerals or metals
• Gafu; album
• Ganso; "founder" prefix to indicate the publisher
• Geisha; a common subject in ukiyo-e
• Hanga; a print
• Hanmoto; a publisher
• Hashira-e; "pillar print", about 28 by 4.5 inches
• Horishi; a carver of woodblocks
• Hosoban; a print size about 13 by 5 inches
• Iro-ban; a colour block
• Jōge-e; prints that can be viewed from either top or bottom
• The Tales of Ise; an uta monogatari, or collection of waka poems and associated narratives, dating from the Heian period
• Ishizuri-e; a print that mimics a stone rubbing, with uninked images or text on a dark, usually black, background
• Ita-bokashi; "block shading" a technique for producing gradation achieved by sanding or abrading the edges of the carving
• Kakemono-e; an ōban diptych arranged one above the other
• Bird-and-flower painting; paintings of flowers and birds
• Kakihan; artist's tag, used on prints with a signature
• Kamigata; region of Japan referring to the cities of Kyoto and Osaka
• Kappazuri; prints of a single colour coloured by stenciling. Prints produced entirely by stenciling, without woodblocks, are also called kappazuri.
• Karazuri; dry printing, embossing
• Kasure-bori; "scratch carving" style of carving imitating dry brushstrokes
• Nakasendō; one of the Five Routes of the Edo period
• Kiwame; "approved" character found in many censor seals
• Kojita-e; a rough sketch
• Komochi-e; prints with moveable parts
• Mameban; a print size about 4.75 by 3.2 inches, sometimes called a "toy print"
• Mount Fuji; the highest mountain in Japan, a common subject
• Musha-e; warrior print
• Namazu ; prints depicting the Japanese mythological giant catfish the Namazu
• Nikuhitsu-ga; a painting in the ukiyo-e style
• Nishiki-e; multi-coloured woodblock printing
• Ōban; a print size about 15½ by 10½ inches
• Ōkubi-e; portrait prints, busts
• Schools : Schools of ukiyo-e artists
• Senso-e; prints depicting the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars
• Shin-hanga; "New Prints" 20th century ukiyo-e print revival
• Shita-e; final preparatory drawing pasted onto the block for printing
• Shikishiban; a print size about 8 by 7 inches often used for surimono
• Shomen-zuri; "front-printing" a polishing technique sometimes used to create a shiny surface on black areas in prints
• Shunga ; "Spring image", erotic-themed art
• Surimono; privately commissioned prints for special occasions such as the New Year
• Surishi; a printer
• Tate-e; a print in vertical or "portrait" format
• Tenpō Reforms; an array of economic policies introduced in 1842 by the Tokugawa Shogunate, precursor to Meiji Restoration
• Tōkaidō ; the most important of the Five Routes of the Edo period
• Uchiwa-e; prints on paddle-shaped hand fans
• Uki-e; "floating picture", a picture using linear perspective
• Ukiyo; "Floating World", depicting culture of Edo-period Japan
• Urushi-e; paintings painted with lacquer, and a printing style using ink that resembles the darkness and thickness of black lacquer
• Waka ; Japanese poetry
• Washi; traditional Japanese paper
• Yakusha-e; actor prints
• Yoko-e; a print in horizontal or "landscape" format
• Yokohama-e''; prints depicting non-East Asian foreigners and scenes of Yokohama.

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