Both genres have not lost their leading position throughout the history of engraving. Their style changed, which was due to a variety of circumstances, most often related to the cultural

In his works, the characteristic features of the Ukiyo-e landscape receive the most vivid and perfect embodiment. Already in the early landscape series of Hiroshige, such as “Toto Maysa”, “Tokaido

In theatrical engraving from the very beginning, images of monks – family coats of arms of actors, which in greatly enlarged form adorned their kimono were widely used. Monas themselves

In one of the engravings Harunobu showed Osen, a riding buffalo, loaded with two huge wicker baskets, and in baskets – love confessions and letters. So in a figurative form,

In the series of the 1850s, the transfer of nature in its particular manifestations was replaced by attempts to generalize numerous observations of her life. However, these are not analytical

But perhaps even more important for the development of Ukiyo-e was the fact that genre engraving under the influence of ukie began to use landscape backgrounds. Although compositional genre scenes

The first master who started working in this technique was Suzuki Harunobu. He not only brought technical innovations to the art of woodcuts, but also used its capabilities in conveying

Okumur Masanobu, the second outstanding master of this period, has a more independent approach to easel engraving. Although he still prefers horizontal formats, he also uses vertical formats that are

In addition to the series, the publisher Woya Eckichi released another sheet in which engravings were listed and grouped. Each sheet from “One hundred famous kinds of Edo” is accompanied

The later landscapes of Hiroshige are no less generalized and symbolic than the landscapes of Hokusai. But, unlike them, they do not break with one of the main principles of

In the Edo period, Camaydo-mura was a suburb of the capital. A special fame here was the unusual plum tree Garubai. The tree died after the 13th Meiji flood. On

Contemporaries saw in the works of Hiroshige a reminder of visits to certain places in Japan, famous for their beauty. However, he was often reproached for deliberately distorting the real

Despite the fact that early ukieh can not be considered landscapes in the full sense of the word, the activities of Masanobu, Kokan and their followers are the first, but

The founder of the Katsukawa dynasty was Katsukawa Syunse, who devoted almost the entire life to a theatrical theme. Thanks to him, she sounded in full force of color, having

One of them was connected with the attempt of the artist to use in the engraving the scheme and imaginative structure of the landscapes of the traditional schools of Kano