One of the earliest books that mentioned Ukiyo-e painting was called "A Lascivious Generation of Men". This book is a household name in Japan, which can be described as Jin Ping Mei in Japan. The content of this book is more explosive than the title. It's about a young man named Sesuke who visits brothels all over the world. At the age of 60, he still has his temperament, looking for a boat to visit a woman's island. According to the theme of this book, the painting is called Gone with the Wind. Hishikawa Moronobu, known as the father of ukiyo-e painting, painted many pictures on this subject.
The theme behind ukiyo-e painting slowly turned to the beautiful scenery living in the countryside. The most famous masterpiece is the surfing of Kanagawa in Kochi Kitazawa. Looking closely at this work, we can see that the huge waves almost swallowed Mount Fuji. There are still three boats in the waves, but the people on the three boats are not afraid at all, which shows a fearless Japanese spirit. /kloc-After the 7th century, Japan's foreign trade was basically monopolized by the Netherlands, and the packaging paper of Japanese tea exported to the Netherlands was covered with Ukiyo-e paintings, so the painting style of Ukiyo-e paintings at that time deeply influenced the Europeans at that time and later. We all know that the great painters Van Gogh and Monet were influenced by the ukiyo-e style. Monet even married a Japanese wife. In his later years, he built a Japanese-style courtyard, raised some water lilies and painted them specially.
At the same time, samurai painting has also become a very important category in ukiyo-e painting. The best painter of samurai is Kookawa Kookawa. The most famous theme in samurai paintings is actually the characters in the Water Margin, such as Shi Jin, Zhi Duo Xing Wu Xingyong and so on. After Japan was forced to be founded, Ukiyo-e began to depict some famous historical events, such as the black ship incident, or some western European businessmen's pictures, called Yokohama paintings. Later, with the beginning of the Meiji Restoration, the killing between the shogunate and the anti-shogunate became the theme of Ukiyo-e painting, which was called no tragedy painting. Later, with the development of modern photography technology, ukiyo-e painting withdrew from the historical stage.