sidijju/japanese-woodblock-prints

Dataset Card

This dataset represents a collection of Japanese Ukiyo-e artwork, sourced from the publically available database at https://ukiyo-e.org/source/jaodb

Dataset Details

Dataset Description

This dataset is a collection of over 170K images, each a particular work of art in the Japanese ukiyo-e style.

• Curated by: Sid Ijju
• License: MIT

Dataset Sources

• Source: https://ukiyo-e.org/source/jaodb

Uses

This dataset is primarily intended to be used for image generation tasks, specifically to generate artwork in the ukiyo-e style. It can also be used for image classification tasks.

Dataset Structure

Each image is of size 220 by 220, and is categorized depending on the era in which it was created into 6 different labels (edo, early, golden, pre-meiji, meiji, modern)

Data Collection and Processing

Data was scraped from the Japanese Art Open Database and processed into standardized images of size 220 by 220.