fuukeiga　風景画

KEY WORD :　art history / paintings

Lit. Landscape painting, a general term, usually applied only to works in the long western tradition of landscape by painters like Ruisdael or Poussin. Oriental compositions that depict mainly natural scenery or views, rather than concentrating on human figures or close-up objects, are called *sansuiga 山水画. Thus Japanese landscapes produced from 18c (late Edo period) in the category of western-style painting *youfuuga 洋風画 and so influenced by western stylistic techniques and themes are termed fuukeiga. There is also a corpus of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 style prints dating from the mid-18c and reaching a peak in the first half of the 19c by artists like Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849) and Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (also known as Andou 安藤 Hiroshige, 1797-1858), called ukiyo-e fuukei hanga 浮世絵風景版画.

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