Japanese prints of the XVIII –XIX century from the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

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Ukiyo-e are pictures of the everyday life of the urban class in the Edo period. In antiquity the word ukiyo was used to designate one of the Buddhist categories and could be translated as "frail world", "vale of sorrows" or "fickle world". At the end of the 17th century ukiyo came to mean the modern world, the world of earthly joys and delights. The creation of Japanese ukiyo-e prints reached its heyday at the end of the 18th century. The main figures in ukiyo-e prints came to be representatives of the third estate: courtesans, actors, sumo wrestlers, characters from Japanese plays and legendary heroes. This led to the emergence of diverse genres in this art: depictions of beauties from "pleasure districts", portraits of actors and scenes from kabuki plays, prints of mythological and literary subjects, historical-heroic prints portraying samurai warriors in battle scenes, landscapes and depictions of flowers and birds.

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100 FAMOUS VIEWS OF EDO UTAGAWA Hirosige I
10 HEROIC EPISODES OF TAMETOMO (“TAMETOMO HOMARE NO JIKKETSU”) UTAGAWA Kuniyoshi
12 MONTH - THE PRIDE OF TOKYO ("TOKYO JIMAN JYUNIKAGETSU") TSUKIOKA Yoshitoshi
12 MONTHS OF UKIYO OGATA Gekkō
36 NEW FORMS OF GHOSTS (“SHINKEI SANJUROKKAISEN”) TSUKIOKA Yoshitoshi
36 VIEWS OF MOUNT FUJI KATSUSHIKA Hokusai
36 VIEWS OF THE EASTERN CAPITAL UTAGAWA Hiroshige II
48 FAMOUS SITES OF TOKYO (“TOKYO MEISHO SHIJUHAKKEI”) SHOSAI Ikkei
53 STATIONS OF THE TŌKAIDŌ UTAGAWA Hirosige I, UTAGAWA Kunisada I, UTAGAWA Kuniyoshi
53 STATIONS OF THE TŌKAIDŌ UTAGAWA Hirosige I
53 STATIONS OF THE TŌKAIDŌ (THE SO-CALLED "KYOKA TOKAIDO") UTAGAWA Hirosige I
53 TŌKAIDŌ STATIONS KATSUSHIKA Hokusai
53 TŌKAIDŌ STATIONS KATSUSHIKA Hokusai
66 STORIES RELATED TO SNOW (“ZENSETSU ROKUROKU DAN”) UTAGAWA Yoshimune II
ACTOR SEGAWA KIKUNOJO V IN A DANCE PERFORMANCE WITH SEVEN TRANSFORMATIONS. UTAGAWA Toyokuni I
BIOGRAPHIES OF LOYAL RETAINERS (“SEICHI GISHI MEIMEI DEN”) MIGITA Toshihide
CHILDREN GAMES OF THE FIVE FESTIVALS (“OSANA ASOBI GOSEKKU NO UCHI”) UTAGAWA Kuniyoshi
COLLECTION OF DESIRES (MITATE TAI ZUKUSHI) TSUKIOKA Yoshitoshi
EHON SEIRŌ BIJIN AWASE (PICTURE BOOK COMPARISON OF THE BEAUTIES OF THE GREEN HOUSES) SUZUKI Harunobu
FAIR DEFENDERS FOR THE TWELVE SIGNS UTAGAWA Kuniyoshi
FAMOUS PLACES OF THE 53 STATIONS UTAGAWA Hirosige I
FAMOUS PLACES OF THE EASTERN CAPITAL (“TŌTO MEISHO”) UTAGAWA Hirosige I
FLOWERS AND BIRDS, DIFFERENT SERIES UTAGAWA Hirosige I
"HYAKUNIN ISSHU" IN THE WET-NURSE`S STORIES (WITH ILLUSTRATIONS) KATSUSHIKA Hokusai
HUMOROUS PICTURES UTAGAWA Hirosige I
IMAGES BASED ON OGURA [VERSION] OF HYAKUNIN ISSHU Collective authorship
LATER COLLECTION OF GENJI EXPRESSIONS (“GENJI GOSHU YOJO”) UTAGAWA Kunisada I
MIRACLES OF THE GOLDEN SWORD ("KOTOHIRA REIGEN KOHO") TSUKIOKA Yoshitoshi
MODERN BEAUTIES OF THE TWELVE MONTH KEISAI Eisen
MURASAKI SHIKIBU. «GENJI CARDS» (“MURASAKI SHIKIBU GENJIKARUTA”) UTAGAWA Kunisada II
PERSPECTIVE CHUSHINGURA, NEW EDITION UTAGAWA Kunimaru
PICTURESQUE EDO PLACES UTAGAWA Hiroshige II
POEMS OF THE SEVEN EPISODES OF KOMACHI`S LIFE KITAGAWA Utamaro II
POETIC COLLECTION OF 36 HEROES MIGITA Toshihide
STORIES OF THE TRUE LOYALTY OF THE FAITHFUL SAMURAI UTAGAWA Kuniyoshi
THE NEW EDITION OF COLOUR WOODBLOCK PRINTS KATSUSHIKA Hokusai
THE PAPER LANTERNS WITH WORD-PLAY KIKUGAWA Eizan
TOUR OF THE WATERFALLS IN VARIOUS PROVINCES KATSUSHIKA Hokusai
TŌKAIDŌ IN IMAGES OF BEAUTIES KEISAI Eisen
UNHAPPY LOVERS Collective authorship
UNUSIAL VIEWS OF FAMOUS PLACES KATSUSHIKA Hokusai
VIEWS OF SCENIC SPOTS IN TOKYO UTAGAWA Hirosige III
WARRIORS BY YOSHITOSHI (“YOSHITOSHI MUSHABURUI”) TSUKIOKA Yoshitoshi
ИЛЛЮСТРИРОВАННАЯ КНИГА ГОРЫ «АСАКА» («ЭХОН АСАКАЯМА») NISHIKAWA Sukenobu
in chronological order
according to centres of production