Ukiyo is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Ukiyo in a sentence
Ukiyo meaning
hedonistic urban culture of the Edo period.
Using Ukiyo
- The main meaning on this page is: hedonistic urban culture of the Edo period.
Context around Ukiyo
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ukiyo
- In this selection, "ukiyo" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, using, joining, powerlifting, grand and aka stand out and add context to how "ukiyo" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1640s early ukiyo e prints and all of ukiyo e. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ukiyo" sits close to words such as abaribe, abbasids and abstentions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ukiyo
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He alone, of his contemporary ukiyo-e artists, achieved a national reputation during his lifetime. (15 words)
Ukiyo AKA Timothy Arnott explains that ‘Go’ was the creative fruit of a contemplative plane trip. (16 words)
Chef Phraseuth 'Paul' Sananikone was the creative director of sushi at Jing Aspen prior to joining Ukiyo. (17 words)
His ukiyo-e transformed the art form from a style of portraiture focused on the courtesans and actors popular during the Edo Period in Japan's cities into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals. (41 words)
As a result, many ukiyo-e artists designed travel scenes and pictures of nature, especially birds and flowers.sfn Landscapes had been given limited attention since Moronobu, and they formed an important element in the works of Kiyonaga and Shuncho. (40 words)
He competed in the USA Powerlifting Ukiyo Grand Prix, where he was awarded first place in his weight class and seventh place out of 97. This demonstration showed Taylor that he was still capable – more than capable, even. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
I have developed five coaching principles using ukiyo that I have taught many leaders, with the goal of raising the level of performance and growth in their organizations.
An Ukiyo-e style artist who goes by the name Lito carves these delicate designs on fallen leaves, giving life back to them.
Chef Phraseuth 'Paul' Sananikone was the creative director of sushi at Jing Aspen prior to joining Ukiyo.
He competed in the USA Powerlifting Ukiyo Grand Prix, where he was awarded first place in his weight class and seventh place out of 97. This demonstration showed Taylor that he was still capable – more than capable, even.
Samurai dramas and Utagawa Hiroshige’s famous ukiyo-e woodblock prints: Those are the classic images evoked by mere mention of the fabled Tokaido highway.
The general use of fine lines in “Puddle” creates texture and depth, alluding to the meticulous delineations in traditional Japanese paintings and ukiyo-e prints.
Ukiyo AKA Timothy Arnott explains that ‘Go’ was the creative fruit of a contemplative plane trip.
As a result, many ukiyo-e artists designed travel scenes and pictures of nature, especially birds and flowers.sfn Landscapes had been given limited attention since Moronobu, and they formed an important element in the works of Kiyonaga and Shuncho.
Colour print production While colour printing in Japan dates to the 1640s, early ukiyo-e prints used only black ink.
Cranes from Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing By 1800, Hokusai was further developing his use of ukiyo-e for purposes other than portraiture.
Detailed records in Edo were kept in a wide variety of courtesans, actors, and sumo wrestlers, but no such records pertaining to ukiyo-e remain—or perhaps ever existed.
Following the war, thinking turned to the importance of ukiyo-e painting and making direct connections with 17th-century Yamato-e paintings; this viewpoint sees Matabei as the genre's originator, and is especially favoured in Japan.
Geczy (2008), 13 While early Genji art was considered symbolic of court culture, by the middle of the Edo period the mass-produced ukiyo-e prints made the illustrations accessible for the samurai classes and commoners.
He alone, of his contemporary ukiyo-e artists, achieved a national reputation during his lifetime.
His sensuous beauties generally are considered the finest and most evocative bijinga in all of ukiyo-e.
His ukiyo-e transformed the art form from a style of portraiture focused on the courtesans and actors popular during the Edo Period in Japan's cities into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals.
His work is marked by a lack of the sentimentality common to ukiyo-e, and a focus on formalism influenced by Western art.
Hokusai also changed the subjects of his works, moving away from the images of courtesans and actors that were the traditional subjects of ukiyo-e.
In 1885 in Antwerp he had become interested in Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints, and had used them to decorate the walls of his studio; while in Paris he collected hundreds of them.
In about 1791 Utamaro gave up designing prints for books and concentrated on making single portraits of women displayed in half-length, rather than the prints of women in groups favoured by other ukiyo-e artists.