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Ukiyo-e art: the great wave, a courtesan and a rainy bridge

Ukiyo-e — a towering wave curling over three long boats of rowers, its foam fingers clawing downward, a small snow-capped volcano framed in the trough, cut in the manner of Katsushika Hokusai, a crisp black keyline block over flat unmodelled colour, one bokashi gradient graded across the sky
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Reading 1Great wave
Reading 2Courtesan
Reading 3Rainy bridge

Ukiyo-e is the Edo-period woodblock print — flat colour, a keyline block, a bokashi-gradient sky. These nine cross a towering wave with the mountain behind it, a courtesan under paper lanterns and a rainy bridge crossed under umbrellas, rendered as Hokusai's Prussian blue, Utamaro's elegant bijin-ga figures and Hiroshige's atmospheric weather. Type your own city or scene and the same three printers' hands cut it.

  • a print of your own city or skyline
  • a landscape print for a study or hallway
  • a gift print for a fan of Japanese art
  • a seasonal (snow, rain) print set

Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?
Each image is drawn in portrait format (832×1216) with an even margin — prints clean on A4 held vertically.
Can I use my own subject instead of the three shown?
Yes — that's what the direction field on the page is for. Type your own idea and the same three hands draw it in the same three styles.
Can I get my own city printed this way?
Yes — type your own place (my city as a woodblock print is the built-in example) and the same three printers' hands render it.
Is this real historical artwork, or new images?
These are new images drawn in the spirit of Katsushika Hokusai's woodblock landscapes, Kitagawa Utamaro's bijin-ga prints and Utagawa Hiroshige's weather scenes — not scans or reproductions of existing work.

About toile

This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.