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ukiyo-e
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ukiyo-e [ˌuːkiːjəʊˈjeɪ]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a school of Japanese painting depicting subjects from everyday life
[Japanese: pictures of the floating world]
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His flawless novel, suffused with sadness and beauty, has the delicacy and restraint of the ukiyoe prints of the moon, cherry blossoms, migrating birds, and dreamy geishas with their admirers, sipping away all sorrow.
Anita Mathias by Mathias, Anita / Commonweal
Kengo Kuma's museum to house work by the great ukiyoe artist Hiroshige Ando also reinterprets traditional building techniques to harnesses light in an exquisitely lyrical way.
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Each sheet sells for 1,100 yen and includes five 80 yen stamps and five 50 yen stamps each featuring a famous ukiyoe Japanese woodblock print, with a personal photo printed next to each stamp so that stamp and photo can be used as pair.
Vanity postage stamp sheets debut at Tokyo stamp exhibition by Japan Weekly Monitor
 
 
 
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