Ukiyo-e Intro text: 
    
    source: https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/ukiyo-e/m0bwbv?categoryId=art-movement

    Japanese for ‘pictures of the floating world’ and referring to transient everyday life, it provided a major source of imagery in Japanese art from the 17th to the 19th centuries, 
    particularly in the work of printmakers such as Hiroshige, Hokusai, and Utamaro.

    Typical subjects included theatre scenes, with actors in well-known roles, and views of the nightlife of Edo (as Tokyo was then called). The resulting brightly colored Woodcut prints were 
    imported into Europe from the middle of the 19th century and had a major influence on many avant-garde artists, including the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, who were particularly
    attracted by the bold compositions and striking colors of Ukiyo-e prints.

    PARAPHRASE

    Ukiyo-e is a genre of art of the Tokugawa period (1603–1867) in Japan. The term ukiyo-e (浮世絵) translates as 'picture[s] of the floating world'.

    Providing a major source of imagery in Japanese art, artists from the 17th-19th century would create woodblock prints and paintings with themes such as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo 
    wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica.