The Acceptance and Evolution to The Water Margin in Ukiyo-e Paintings
The Water Margin was introduced to Japan from China in the 17th century,and the Ukiyo-e paintings with the theme of The Water Margin during the Edo period in Japan reflected the acceptance to the text by artists.The acceptance process presented an evolution from artists'focus on illustrating the stories in the early stage,to the focus on highlighting individual and group portraits of characters in the middle and later stages.A higher acceptance of characters often means more adaptations of them.Ukiyo-e painters,represented by Kunihiro Kagawa,enlarged the heroic characters based on the prototype character paintings and localized them,especially reflecting the humorous characteristics of Japanese Edo culture through sexual transformation.On the theme of loy-alty and righteousness in original works,artists mainly emphasized righteousness and weakened loyalty.
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