What does "ukiyo-e" mean?

Ukiyo-e painting is one of the main print art varieties in Tokugawa era in Japan, and it is a typical flower street and Liuxiang art.

Judging from the painting materials, more than 70% of the contents are prostitute paintings (temporarily called "beauty paintings") and geisha paintings (temporarily called "artist paintings"), that is to say, the protagonists of the works are prostitutes and geisha, female, naked, sexy and beautiful, and pornography is its symbolic feature. From the point of view of modern art, it can be regarded as "the art of body painting", but a large number of sexual intercourse themes can't be compared with China's "Spring Painting", lacking artistry and poor techniques, but it still has certain aesthetic significance for appreciating sexy beauty.

The artistic origin of ukiyo-e painting, firstly, comes from painting, which inherits China's "spring painting" and house painting; First, from the literary point of view, influenced by Caozi (Caozi: Novel), the love death of the lascivious generation of Xihe women, lascivious generation of men and Jin Song's Zeng Genqi, and the love death of Skynet Island are all direct manifestations of literature "floating world writing", and the theme and theme are nothing more than pornography and prostitutes (of course, the literary value is not proportional to the theme of the work).

Therefore, "ukiyo-e" is a proper term of painting art, which has its specific connotation and extension. Western modern body painting draws lessons from Japanese "Ukiyo-e" themes and techniques, which is a positive side and has artistic aesthetic value.

The word "floating world" comes from Buddhist terms, and its original meaning is reincarnation of life and death, and the world is nothing. That is, this shore or filthy land, that is, worrying about the world or the world. Since the word "floating world" appeared in Japanese, it has always implied the meaning of pornography and debauchery.

Literally, "ukiyo-e painting" is taken for granted as a painting about secular customs, which is similar to the genre painting of China's Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival. If this proper noun is extended to the field of literature and summarized as a description of secular customs, it will deviate from the established semantics more and more, almost equivalent to a typo. It is difficult for painters to accept such a definition. The Japanese were surprised that a Japanese word had such a big ambiguity after it was exported to China.