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Fūkeiga (風景画) are a genre of Japanese painting and ukiyo-e woodblock prints which feature landscapes. Works of this type emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, due in large part to the influence of European stylistic techniques and elements.

Historical background

Nicolas Poussin, who was a pioneer of landscape painting along with Annibale Carracci and Claude Lorrain Jan van Goyen Salomon van Ruisdael JAANUS

Related genres

Sansuiga

mountain and water pictures Oriental compositions that depict mainly natural scenery or views, rather than concentrating on human figures or close-up objects, are called *sansuiga 山水画. JAANUS

Meisho-e

pictures of famous places

Uki-e

perspective pictures

Yōfūga

western-style pictures

Utagawa Hiroshige (1857) Awa Naruto no fuukei

Hiroshige, Coastal landscape in moonlight

Falls of Kirifuri at Mt. Kurokami, Shimotsuke Province LACMA M.2011.135.2 (1 of 2)

Hokusai Boats & Moon

Hokusai-Red-Fuji

A bluegreen landscape by Tani Buncho

'View of Kyoto', fan painting by Kano Motohide, Japanese late 16th century, one of a set of 10, ink and color on gold paper, Honolulu Academy of Arts

Nikko kaido hasui kawase

Katsushika.shing.hanga.woodblock.print.by.Takahashi.Shôtei.scanset.image.01.of.02

Asukayama LACMA M.2006.136.207a-b

Maker unknown, Japanese - Pavilions in a Mountain Landscape - Google Art Project

Evening Landscape, c. 1540, Japan, Muromachi period

Literally 'landscape pictures', fūkeiga

See also

• Landscape art
• Spring and autumn landscapes (Hara Zaishō) - scroll painting
• View of Tempōzan Park in Naniwa (Gochōtei Sadamasu) - woodblock print

References

• JAANUS. "Fuukeiga." Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System. 2001. Accessed January 22, 2014. http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/f/fuukeiga.htm

• Kobayashi, Tadashi. Ukiyo-e: An Introduction to Japanese Woodblock Prints. Translated by Mark A. Harbison. New York: Kodansha, 1992.
• Newland, Amy Reigle. The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints, vol. 2. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2005.
• Calza, Gian Carlo. Ukiyo-e. New York: Phaidon Press, 2005.

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