Famous ukiyo-e prints include elegant portraits of beautiful women by artists such as Suzuki Harunobu and Kitagawa Utamaro, and landscape paintings such as The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido by Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige.
Among ukiyo-e prints, those that are crude, highly colorful, and loud, depicting periods from the mid-Edo period to the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration, as well as the Satsuma Rebellion, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Russo-Japanese War, are called nishiki-e.
Many nishiki-e prints were painted in later years, and are often exaggerated or different from historical fact, but they also serve as a mirror reflecting the historical context in which they were published.