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[[ Image:Miyagawa Issho - Shunga emaki.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A section from a ''[[shunga]]'' [[emaki|handscroll]] by [[Miyagawa Issho|Miyagawa Isshô]] depicting a samurai and his young male lover.]]

[[ Image:Miyagawa Issho - Shunga emaki.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A section from a ''[[shunga]]'' [[emaki|handscroll]] by [[Miyagawa Issho|Miyagawa Isshô]] depicting a samurai and his young male lover.]]

*''Japanese'': 浮世絵 ''(ukiyoe)''

*''Japanese'': 浮世絵 ''(ukiyoe)''

''Ukiyo-e'' is a genre of Japanese [[painting]] and [[woodblock printing|woodblock prints]], comprising a number of closely related styles, which formed one of the core genres of [[Edo period]] popular art. The term literally means "pictures of the [[floating world]]," and ''ukiyo-e'' images generally depict elements of urban commoner culture, especially [[kabuki]] actors, courtesans and other beautiful women, sumo wrestlers, and [[meisho|famous places]] around [[Edo]] and elsewhere.

''Ukiyo-e'' is a genre of Japanese [[painting]] and [[woodblock printing|woodblock prints]], comprising a number of closely related styles, which formed one of the core genres of [[Edo period]] popular art. The term literally means "pictures of the [[floating world]]," and ''ukiyo-e'' images generally depict elements of urban commoner culture, especially [[kabuki]] actors, courtesans and other beautiful women, sumo wrestlers, and [[meisho|famous places]] around [[Edo]] and elsewhere.