Uki-e

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 1730s through to the mid-nineteenth century.

[1] Around 1739, Okumura Masanobu studied European engravings to learn the rules of perspective.

[1] Masanobu was the first to apply the term Uki-e to perspective images, and Utagawa Toyoharu fully developed the form in the late 1750s when he produced colored woodblock copies of engravings after Canaletto and Guardi.

The interior of Kabuki theaters was a common subject in Uki-e prints.

Interior scenes tend to be favored as it is easier to accurately apply one point perspective to architecture than to landscape.