Original: Ukiyo-e (or) 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 theater, and pleasure quarters.
Simplified: Ukiyo-e, "pictures of the floating world", is a genre of Japanese paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, that showed landscapes, the theater and scenes of every day entertainment. They were made using woodblock prints.