NEW: Beautiful Japanese Triptych Notecards
In mid-nineteenth-century Japan, woodblock prints reached their height of commercial popularity with the emergence of the ukiyo-e genre. Sold at prices accessible to the middle class, ukiyo-e prints eschewed highbrow subjects in favor of images depicting modern urban life: contemporary actors in kabuki plays, famous courtesans and sumo wrestlers, popular recreational pastimes, and landscapes, often featuring premier tourist attractions. Like today's celebrity magazines at supermarket checkout counters, these prints were produced in volume and snapped up by the masses. Though many critics once sniffed at this populist art, historians now recognize the ukiyo-e masters as among the greatest artists in Japanese history.
Among the many different "schools"—i.e., master-student lineages—of ukiyo-e printmakers, the Utagawa school was by far the most successful. The four triptychs featured in this notecard assortment are all by revered Utagawa-school masters: Hiroshige I (1797–1858), Hiroshige II (1826–1869), and, collaborating on two of the included works, Kunisada I (1786–1864).
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