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*''Japanese'': 大首絵 ''(ookubi e)''
''Ôkubi-e'' (lit. "decapitation pictures") were a sub-genre of ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' bust portraits which became widespread beginning in the late 18th century.
There certainly had been bust portraits in Japan in earlier periods, but it was only in the 1770s or 1780s that busts first became a standard or widely common mode. This development is generally credited to either [[Katsukawa Shuncho|Katsukawa Shunchô]] or [[Koikawa Harumachi]]. As with other portrait forms in ''ukiyo-e'', the first bust portraits were images of kabuki actors, followed by pictures of [[courtesans]].
''Ôkubi-e'' were banned by the shogunate in [[1800]], not for any particular reason of propriety, but "because they stand out" (''medatsu'').
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==References==
*Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', University of Hawaii Press (2012), 195-197.
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[[Category:Art and Architecture]]
''Ôkubi-e'' (lit. "decapitation pictures") were a sub-genre of ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' bust portraits which became widespread beginning in the late 18th century.
There certainly had been bust portraits in Japan in earlier periods, but it was only in the 1770s or 1780s that busts first became a standard or widely common mode. This development is generally credited to either [[Katsukawa Shuncho|Katsukawa Shunchô]] or [[Koikawa Harumachi]]. As with other portrait forms in ''ukiyo-e'', the first bust portraits were images of kabuki actors, followed by pictures of [[courtesans]].
''Ôkubi-e'' were banned by the shogunate in [[1800]], not for any particular reason of propriety, but "because they stand out" (''medatsu'').
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==References==
*Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', University of Hawaii Press (2012), 195-197.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Terminology]]
[[Category:Art and Architecture]]