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Ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) is a picture that drew people's life and things etc. of daily life of Edo period. Word "Ukiyo" is a word that means "floating world".
Representative works of traditional Japanese sculptures derived from Shintist and Buddhist religious arts.(Shinto is a native religion of Japan and was once its state religion.)
Buddhist painting(Butsuga), literati painting(Bunjinga), screen and partition painting(Shoheiga), ink painting(Suibokuga), scroll painting(Emaki) with historical comments and explanations of techniques and styles.