Hishikawa Moronobu (16 18- 1694) is one of the earliest artists who developed woodcut into an art form, and is famous for illustration and painting. These early prints made with black ink are called ink paintings. Some ink paintings are hand-painted with Dan (a lead red pigment), which is called Dan painting, that is, red painting. Due to the addition of other pigments, a variety of hand-painted prints have appeared. Lacquer painting is lacquer painting. The color of the painting is covered with colloid and scattered with metal particles.

About 174 1 year, the first set of color block prints appeared. Masanobu Okura (1686- 1764) is considered to have produced the first set of two-color ukiyo-e prints. These prints use green and carmine (light rose) pigments, which are called red folding paintings, that is, pink paintings.

Suzuki Harunobu (1725- 1770) produced the first set of color prints in 1765. Because of its bright colors, it is called brocade painting, that is, brocade painting With the development of full color, Japanese printmaking reached technical perfection in the second half of18th century. Chun Xin and Sheng Chuan Zhang Chun (1726- 1798? ) and Beichuan Gewu (1753- 1806) are both outstanding printmakers. In the19th century, landscape paintings with the theme of teahouse scenery, waterfalls and Mount Fuji were very popular. Ge Shibeizhai (1760- 1849) and Ando Hiroshige (1797- 1858), the last masters of ukiyo-e, ruled19th century.