ukiyo-e
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Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th to 19th centuries, best known for its woodblock prints depicting everyday life, landscapes, kabuki actors, and courtesans.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| ukiyo-e canonical | 5 |
| Ukiyo-e | 2 |
| Edo-period ukiyo-e | 1 |
| ukiyo-e movement | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16001675 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: ukiyo-e Context triple: [Tokitarō, associatedWithArtForm, ukiyo-e]
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A.
Otsu-e paintings
Otsu-e paintings are a traditional Japanese folk art style from the city of Ōtsu, known for their bold, colorful depictions of deities, demons, and everyday characters sold as popular talismans and souvenirs.
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B.
Utagawa school
The Utagawa school was a major Japanese ukiyo-e art school of the Edo and Meiji periods, known for its prolific production of woodblock prints and for training many of the era’s most influential printmakers.
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C.
Momoyama painting
Momoyama painting is a bold, opulent Japanese art style characterized by large-scale works, rich colors, and lavish use of gold, often decorating castles and elite residences in the late 16th century.
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D.
shin-hanga
Shin-hanga was a 20th-century Japanese printmaking movement that revitalized traditional ukiyo-e techniques with modern sensibilities, emphasizing collaboration between artists, carvers, printers, and publishers.
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E.
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo is a celebrated series of ukiyo-e woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige that vividly depicts landscapes and everyday life in 19th-century Tokyo (then Edo).
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: ukiyo-e Target entity description: Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th to 19th centuries, best known for its woodblock prints depicting everyday life, landscapes, kabuki actors, and courtesans.
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A.
Otsu-e paintings
Otsu-e paintings are a traditional Japanese folk art style from the city of Ōtsu, known for their bold, colorful depictions of deities, demons, and everyday characters sold as popular talismans and souvenirs.
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B.
Utagawa school
The Utagawa school was a major Japanese ukiyo-e art school of the Edo and Meiji periods, known for its prolific production of woodblock prints and for training many of the era’s most influential printmakers.
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C.
Momoyama painting
Momoyama painting is a bold, opulent Japanese art style characterized by large-scale works, rich colors, and lavish use of gold, often decorating castles and elite residences in the late 16th century.
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D.
shin-hanga
Shin-hanga was a 20th-century Japanese printmaking movement that revitalized traditional ukiyo-e techniques with modern sensibilities, emphasizing collaboration between artists, carvers, printers, and publishers.
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E.
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo is a celebrated series of ukiyo-e woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige that vividly depicts landscapes and everyday life in 19th-century Tokyo (then Edo).
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Edo-period ukiyo-e
this entity surface form:
Ukiyo-e
this entity surface form:
ukiyo-e movement
this entity surface form:
Ukiyo-e