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As ukiyo-e became popular, the wealthy merchant class, preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure, called for an unending succession of pictures of the gay quarters, the theater and beautiful women ( bijin-ga ). Eventually, these pictures began to border on the ludicrous, and a demand arose for something more spiritual. Simultaneously, country people knowing nothing of big-city life needed prints with a more general theme. These demands were met by kacho-ga , literally flower-and-bird pictures, which, as a genre, began to attract increasing numbers of artists, among them two of the greatest and most famous, Hokusai and Hiroshige. The idea underlying kacho-ga was not a simple reproduction of nature, but an expression of some subjective emotion, giving pleasure to the refined mind that delights in the contemplation of natural beauty. Hokusai, in both his woodblock prints and his paintings, brings aesthetic discipline to nature; he makes careful compositions of plants and animals, depicting them with fine, precise lines. Hiroshige, on the other hand, reveals a gentle romanticism which is absent in Hokusai's work, and adopts a more poetical approach. Both these outstanding artists, wh

Author

Muneshige Narazaki; John Bester; Katsushika Hokusai; Hiroshige Ando

Publisher

Tokyo, Palo Alto, Calif., Kodansha International

Published

1970

Language

EN

ISBN

9780870111037

Subjects

Art, History, Arts

Rating

5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14