ukiyo-e

• ukiyoe, ukiyoé

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /uːˌkiːjəʊˈeɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /uː.ˈki.oʊ.ˌeɪ/

ukiyo-e (plural ukiyo-e)

1. A Japanese woodblock print or painting depicting everyday life. [from 19th c.]
   • 1946, "Approved by the Air Force", Time, 20 Jan 1946:

     Like many Ukiyo-e artists, Jacoulet hires woodcarvers and printers to convert his ideas into prints.

   • 1958, The Times, 2 Apr 1958, 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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