UKIYO-E AND THE EARLY EASTERN SENSE OF SPACE

I described images such as these at length in my essay, so will keep this description brief by only saying that it was classic of early Ukiyo-e and 'Sansui' brush paintings, as the last image is (also what Ukiyo-e developed from), to show an expanse of land and give a real feel for the space described by usually showing a foreground and linking that to a distant background, without much if any attention given to the middle plane.