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*''Japanese'': 紅嫌絵 ''(beni girai e)''

''Beni-girai-e'', literally "pictures hating red," were a style of ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' woodblock prints produced especially in the [[Tenmei era]] (1780s), in which artists experimented with effects of diffuse lighting and graduated shadow.

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==References==
*Kobayashi Tadashi, Julie Nelson Davis (trans.). "The Floating World in Light and Shadow: Ukiyo-e Paintings by Hokusai's Daughter Oi." in Carpenter, John et al (eds). ''Hokusai and his Age''. Hotei Publishing, 2005. p99.

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