Japan: 'Foreigners Enjoying Themselves at a Party'. Detail of triptych print by Utagawa Yoshikazu (active 1850-1870); 1860. The ukiyo-e genre of art flourished in Japan from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica. The term ukiyo-e translates as 'picture[s] of the floating world'.