Chapter 55 Faust

Fushi-e is a folk painting popular in the Edo period (1603-1867) in Japan that depicts customs and human feelings, as well as comedians, samurai, wandering girls, and landscapes.Faust, a Buddhist term, contains the impermanence of life.Faust painting has bright colors, smooth lines and delicate expressive techniques.It is a traditional painting of the Japanese Yamato nation.The roots of Faus-e can be traced back to the popular genre paintings and bijin-ga of the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1573-1600).In the Edo period, the themes were expanded to express city life and customs, recreational activities, scenic spots, as well as kabuki, wrestler sumo, beauty spring paintings, flower and bird paintings, etc., and developed from brush paintings to woodblock prints.It was Hishikawa Shinobu who created the woodblock print. Woodblock prints from the second half of the 17th century were printed in ink.In the 18th century, Suzuki Harunobu created multi-color printed woodblock prints, and Faust-e entered the golden age. At that time, the representative figure of Faust-e was Kitagawa Utama. , Youyan gorgeous.At the end of the Edo period, "Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido" by Ando Hiroshige depicted the vivid life and landscape pictures of the Edo period, leaving behind the social style of the end of the Shogunate period.The development and popularity of Faust painting are inseparable from the whole society in the Edo period and the development of people's aesthetics at that time.Therefore, with the decline of the Edo period, this kind of painting gradually declined, but its influence on Japanese art and even the aesthetics of the entire Yamato nation cannot be ignored.