Art: Woodblock Prints

Woodblock Prints

Included in Visual Arts box

Description: Produced since the Edo period (17th to 19th century), ukiyo-e, or “pictures of floating world”, are Japanese woodblock prints. They often depict natural scenery, historical events, beautiful women, kabuki actors, landscapes, and sumo wrestlers. In order to create an ukiyo-e, an artist, or eshi, sketches a picture indicating designated color schemes, and a wood carver, or horishi, then carves the picture into a piece of wood separating each block by color. Paint is then applied to the wooden blocks and pressed onto sheets of paper by a surishi, or printer, creating the final piece. Some well know ukiyo-e artists include Kitagawa Utamaro, Utagawa Hiroshige, and Katsushika Hokusai.
For more information, visit: http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/indepth/cultural/experience/n.html

Lesson Plans (All are in PDF format)
- Art of Japan – NCTA Ohio
- Contemporary Japanese Relief Printing – NCTA Ohio
- Famous People of Japan: Katsushika Hokusai – Ohio Japan Project
- Japanese Floating Lanterns – NCTA Ohio
- Japanese Printmaking – Ohio Japan Project
- Japanese Woodblock Prints – NCTA Ohio
- Japanese Woodblocks and the Art of the Postcard – NCTA Ohio
- Postcards – Ohio Japan Project

Standard Reference
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- Visual Arts:
  - Grade 4: 2PE, 3PE, 6PE, 1PR, 3PR, 4PR, 5PR, 1RE, 3RE, 5RE, 6RE
  - Grade 6: 1PE, 3PE, 4PE, 5PE, 1PR, 2PR, 3PR, 4PR, 1RE, 2RE, 3RE, 4RE, 5RE
  - Grade 7: 1PE, 2PE, 4PE, 6PE, 1PR, 3PR , 6PR, 1RE, 4RE, 6RE, 7RE
  - Grade 8: 1PE, 2PE, 5PE, 6PE, 1PR, 2PR, 3PR, 4PR, 2RE, 6RE
  - HS Beginning: 2PE, 4PE, 1PR, 2PR, 3PR, 4PR, 6PR, 1RE, 3RE
  - HS Intermediate: 1PE, 2PE, 3PE, 4PE, 1PR, 2PR, 3PR, 4PR, 6PR, 1RE, 2RE, 3RE
  - HS Accelerated: 1PE, 2PE, 3PE, 4PE, 1PR, 2PR, 3PR, 4PR , 6PR, 1RE, 2RE, 3RE