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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 Raizo I|Ichikawa Raizô I]] and [[Otani Hiroemon]], by ''ukiyo-e'' artist [[Katsukawa Shunsho|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.
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==References==
*Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', University of Hawaii Press (2012), 195.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Terminology]]
[[Category:Art and Architecture]]
''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 Raizo I|Ichikawa Raizô I]] and [[Otani Hiroemon]], by ''ukiyo-e'' artist [[Katsukawa Shunsho|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.
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==References==
*Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', University of Hawaii Press (2012), 195.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Terminology]]
[[Category:Art and Architecture]]
