Ukiyo-e, ‘pictures of the floating world’ is a historic Japanese art style that was used by Japanese artists from the 1600s through to the 1800s. This iconic Japanese art style used painting and woodblock prints to produce vivid and characterful paintings of subjects like kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, and courtesans. Examples of ukiyo-e include works by Hishikawa Moronobu and Kitagawa Utamaro.