Уки-э

thumb|Taking the Evening Cool by Ryōgoku Bridge (1745), Okumura MasanobuThis early example of an uki-e print uses Western-style perspective for the interior, but more traditional Japanese technique for the exterior. thumb|Act Four (Shindamme) from the series Uki-e Chūshingura (c. 1820s), [[Utagawa KuninaoCollection the Cincinnati Art Museum]] refers to a genre of ukiyo-e pictures that employs western conventions of linear perspective. Although they never constituted more than a minor genre, pictures in perspective were drawn and printed by Japanese artists from their introduction in the late