Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Asian
6. East Asian
7. Japanese (culture or style)
8. Early Modern Japanese

Narrower term/s

• Early Edo[+]
  • Genroku
• Middle Edo
• Late Edo[+]
  • Ukiyo-e [NP] [+]
    • Katsukawa School
    • Kitao School
    • Utagawa School
    • Nishimura School
    • Kaigetsudo School
    • Yokohama-e
    • Kitagawa School
    • Hokusai School
    • Hishigawa School
    • Edo-e
    • Suzuki School
    • Muzan-e
    • Yakusha-e
  • Tenpō

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the period and style that developed from the unification of Japan in 1600 until the end of the shogunal dynasty in 1868. During this period, economic expansion encouraged the rise of an educated merchant class who created their own forms of literature and theater as well as new schools of painting and woodblock printing. A wide diversity of pictorial subjects and styles developed during this period and many 19th century Western artists were influenced by them.