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People must see seeking Japanese style taste! Of 210 000 or more points [Ukiyo-e] can search

About 300 years ago in Edo period, there are of course no internet or websites existed, but people had known latest trends by Ukiyo-e, which is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theatre, and pleasure quarters. Kabuki actors’ pictures and glamorous Bijinga were sold well like present idols. Japanese animations’ popularity makes sense that it is just orthodox descendant of Ukiyo-e. This web site can search over 210,000 of high resolution Ukiyo-e. Creators might have new findings in traditional arts.
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http://ja.ukiyo-e.org