Key_Tokugawa_Project

In the tokugawa period, Woodblock printing is used for printing images used widely throughout East Asia and is originating in China.In the other half of the 17th century,woodlock prints became very popular art. The art was mainy focused on Bushi or Warriors to show their power and virility.As their powers shifted,poeple in castles would ask for impressive landscaping or like a scene of a morning sunrise.Back then woodlock print would be very expensive andd people would demand the pricings to go down. Woodlock priniting would be use or bought by mostly artist and authors. This is Yakko Edobe,A Yakko is a manservant often used by samurai to perform violent stuff to do.His style like bristling hair, his hands that strech out looking like he is a wicked man.In this picture it looks like he is playing in a play.

The woodblock image of an Edo Kabuki theater, people use plays for entertaining. sometimes the art that they made like sword fighting, can sometimes be paint from looking at it from a theater.Kabuki theater started as a song and dance act, performed by female dances troupes.later people \banned female for performing on the theater and use guy to look as females. This woodblock image is a view of the economy or what they do (jobs), for example this image is about farming or planting.In real life they wear hay like uniform.In this picture, it look like they are they planting,they are separting the rice because at the time that al they had thats what they can plant.At the bottom of the pictures,the black part should be the rice.

The arts of //ukiyo-e,was focus on romantic,or the beauty of women.I//n the form of prints like those of Utamaro, the most famous artist of female beauty.



This is not a street,neither a walkway,but this is a highway.This highway is called the Tokaido stretched about 290 miles,this highway went to Edo to Kyoto.The journey from edo to kyoto usally take to 7 days to 10 days.

This picture shows that the artists only uses black and white and this artist was very sucessful commercial designer.Here an dressed couple thats walking along under a umbrella beneath a snowy willow tree. The man is dressed in black and wears a hood, while the lady is cloaked in a flowing white outer robe, so this picture show fashion about their clothes.