What are these paintings called?

Question

okay there like japanese or chinese ancient paintings or drawings. there like on scroll like things or weird paper and are real colorful and the people are kinda cartoonized and look weird but cool? i want to get some pictures, i seen some in books and at a asian store but have no clue what they are called

 

Answer 1

It's not Chinese at all. usually Chinese paintings do not have too many full saturated colors. You probably are looking at Ukiyo-e literally meaning. "pictures of the floating world," a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theater, and pleasure quarters. It is the main artistic genre of woodblock printing in Japan.

 

"Floating world" in English, referring to a conception of an evanescent world, impermanent, fleeting beauty and a realm of entertainments.

 

Both Chinese and Japanese paintings are painted on rice paper and wet mounted with scrolls. Chinese paintings are more painterly, whereas japanese paintings are more graphic

Answer 2

Ask at the Asian store, or under "Japanese/Chinese paintings" at wikipedia. buckeye