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[[Image:神奈川沖浪裏.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''Under the Wave at Kanagawa'', one of the most famous images in all of Japanese art; it makes extensive use of Prussian blue."]]
Prussian blue, also known as Berlin blue, is considered the world's first artificial (chemical) pigment; that is to say, it is a paint or printing ink not made directly from plant, mineral, or other natural materials. The pigment is used in some of the most iconic and famous ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' woodblock prints, including the "Great Wave Off Kanagawa" and many others by [[Hokusai]] and [[Hiroshige]]. Prussian blue was highly prized in Japan as a blue pigment which, unlike [[dayflower blue]] and many other vegetable pigments, did not fade or discolor when exposed to light or moisture.
Developed in Germany in the early 18th century, Prussian blue appears in a series of maps known as ''[[magiri-zu]]'' produced in [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû]] in [[1737]] to [[1750]];<ref>Gallery labels, ''Ryukyu/Okinawa no chizu ten'', Okinawa Prefectural Museum, Feb 2017.</ref> these maps might represent the earliest use of the pigment in the (greater) Japanese archipelago.
Prussian blue was not widely used in mainland Japan until the 1830s, however, with a series of fan prints by [[Keisai Eisen]] from [[1829]] being perhaps the first to be printed entirely in Prussian blue (as ''[[ai-e]]'', or "blue pictures") without any other colors.<ref>"[http://shunga.honolulumuseum.org/2013/index.php?page=125&language=&maxImageHeight=470&headerTop=0&headerHeight=109&footerTop=579&bw=1366&sh=0&refreshed=refreshed#.VH1YvsmTLqM Tongue in Cheek: Erotic Art in 19th-Century Japan]," Honolulu Museum of Art, exhibition website, accessed 1 Dec 2014.</ref> Many of the most famous ''ukiyo-e'' images employing Prussian blue - such as Hokusai's "Great Wave," are from the 1830s.
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[[Category:Edo Period]]
Prussian blue, also known as Berlin blue, is considered the world's first artificial (chemical) pigment; that is to say, it is a paint or printing ink not made directly from plant, mineral, or other natural materials. The pigment is used in some of the most iconic and famous ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' woodblock prints, including the "Great Wave Off Kanagawa" and many others by [[Hokusai]] and [[Hiroshige]]. Prussian blue was highly prized in Japan as a blue pigment which, unlike [[dayflower blue]] and many other vegetable pigments, did not fade or discolor when exposed to light or moisture.
Developed in Germany in the early 18th century, Prussian blue appears in a series of maps known as ''[[magiri-zu]]'' produced in [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû]] in [[1737]] to [[1750]];<ref>Gallery labels, ''Ryukyu/Okinawa no chizu ten'', Okinawa Prefectural Museum, Feb 2017.</ref> these maps might represent the earliest use of the pigment in the (greater) Japanese archipelago.
Prussian blue was not widely used in mainland Japan until the 1830s, however, with a series of fan prints by [[Keisai Eisen]] from [[1829]] being perhaps the first to be printed entirely in Prussian blue (as ''[[ai-e]]'', or "blue pictures") without any other colors.<ref>"[http://shunga.honolulumuseum.org/2013/index.php?page=125&language=&maxImageHeight=470&headerTop=0&headerHeight=109&footerTop=579&bw=1366&sh=0&refreshed=refreshed#.VH1YvsmTLqM Tongue in Cheek: Erotic Art in 19th-Century Japan]," Honolulu Museum of Art, exhibition website, accessed 1 Dec 2014.</ref> Many of the most famous ''ukiyo-e'' images employing Prussian blue - such as Hokusai's "Great Wave," are from the 1830s.
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==References==
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[[Category:Art and Architecture]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]