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Ukiyo-e Graphic AI image prompts

Japanese woodblock prints of the 'floating world,' built from flat planes of color, confident black outlines, and daringly asymmetric, cropped compositions. A mass-produced popular art whose graphic logic reshaped Western design. Use the prompts below in Midjourney, DALL·E, or Stable Diffusion — or build your own from the Ukiyo-e Graphic vocabulary.

Katsushika Hokusai — The Great Wave off Kanagawa (c. 1831)

Copy-ready prompts

Midjourney
a poster in the Ukiyo-e Graphic style, ukiyo-e woodblock, floating world print, flat color plane, bold black outline, asymmetric crop, Hokusai wave, Mount Fuji view, nishiki-e registration, woodcut, flat-color, bold-outline, asymmetric, highly detailed --ar 3:2 --no text, watermark
DALL·E / ChatGPT
A poster in the Ukiyo-e Graphic style. Emphasize ukiyo-e woodblock, floating world print, flat color plane, bold black outline, asymmetric crop, Hokusai wave, Mount Fuji view, nishiki-e registration. The mood is woodcut, flat-color, bold-outline, asymmetric. Highly detailed, no text or watermark, 3:2 landscape composition.
Stable Diffusion
a poster in the Ukiyo-e Graphic style, ukiyo-e woodblock, floating world print, flat color plane, bold black outline, asymmetric crop, Hokusai wave, Mount Fuji view, nishiki-e registration, woodcut, flat-color, bold-outline, asymmetric, highly detailed, sharp focus
Negative prompt: text, watermark, signature, blurry, low quality, deformed

Ukiyo-e Graphic keyword vocabulary

Tap a keyword to collect it in the Designdeas prompt builder, then mix in your own subject.

Prompts for related styles

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