Nigao-e
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- Japanese: 似顔絵 (nigao-e)
Nigao-e were a sub-genre of Edo period ukiyo-e woodblock printed portraits which showed recognizable facial likenesses of the people depicted. They were in this respect a successor to the nise-e paintings of the Kamakura period, which also aimed to recreate facial likeness.
The first datable nigao-e is said to have been a 1764 double portrait of the kabuki actors Ichikawa Raizô I and Otani Hiroemon, by ukiyo-e artist Katsukawa Shunshô. His Yakusha natsu no fuji, a book of actor portraits published in 1780, is cited as an important example of the continuation of this trend.
References
- Timon Screech, Obtaining Images, University of Hawaii Press (2012), 195.
