Mata_Tokugawa_Project

Artistic development in the Tokugawa period
==**//This woodblock image is titled "Hiroshige: Edo at night." It is among the famous and well known images of art.//**==

==//Tokugawa art is a very popular and important part of Edo culture. Woodblock images, also known as ukiyo-e : "sketches of the floating world", were a major development in art. Woodblock prints were big in the world of visual art. Artists would often make woodblock images of whatever important event was taking place at the time. Woodblocks were also considered a form of entertainment.//==

==//**Woodblock images were bought by people from all classes. They would typically cost the same as a bowl of noodles. In terms of selling them, woodblock images were sold by the merchants. The woodblock images would usually sell out fast, espacially with travelers that came through Edo. The would buy the images as their souveneirs.**//== = = =//**Famous Woodblock images**//=

==//**Among the many images of woodblock prints there were some really famous ones. One of the more known aritsts was a man named Katsushika Hokusai.**//== ==Katsushika hokusai is best known for his work [|."The Great Wave"] and [|"Mount Fuji",]which are both seen here.They are famous for Hokusai's interpretation of Japan.==

==Katsushika Hokusai made a series of woodblck paintings of Mount Fuji.Below is an example.In this painting a boat load of passengers are gazing at Mt. Fuji. It is meant to be a look of the ordinary people in their daily life.== ==This image here is an example of Hokusai's landscaping. This is set at the Sumida River. Although the setting is real, the perspective is wrong.== ==**The tail of the boat is higher than the houses behind it, and the boat appears to be above the house at the front of the illustration. This is one of Hokusai's earlier paintings that shows how he was still experimenting with various elements.**== ==**This woodblock image is titled [|Shore of TagoBay, Ejiri Tokaido]. This is part of the "Thirty Six Views Of Mt. Fuji".All Of these Woodblock prints were a very big and important part in the japenese culture.** **Japanese woodblock prints introduced Japanese culture to the rest of the world for the first time when Westerners began seriously collecting prints in the early 19th century. The japanese would use these woodlock prints asand make them into advertisements.** **In the 1920’s Japanese printmaking altered drastically in technique and purpose.** **Most of the Japenese people viewed these prints as inferior and of artistic value.****Ukiyo-e prints became corrupt,the way the Meiji goverment made them a mass production and the way they were commercialized. Woodblock print artists often considered their work an elemental and highly personal creative act.**==