ukiyo-e


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ukiyo-e /uːˌkiːjəʊˈeɪ/
noun a school of Japanese art depicting subjects from everyday life, dominant in the 17th–19th centuries.
– origin Japanese, from ukiyo ‘fleeting world’ + e ‘picture’.
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