ai-e　藍絵

KEY WORD :　art history / paintings

Woodblock prints *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 colored in shades of indigo blue *ai 藍. May include small amounts of vermillion or yellow pigment. Some sources claim that this palatte resulted from the 1841 prohibition of using extravagant colors, but such prints already existed in the Bunsei 文政 era (1818-1830).

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