The chart is an interactive lineage map. Ukiyo-e sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.

For Ukiyo-e (c. 1660s – 1867 (mid-Edo onward)), it traces one movement that shaped it, a well-established link: Japanese art; it runs alongside one parallel movement, a well-established link: the Rinpa school; it fans out to four movements it went on to influence, all well-established links: Japonisme, Shin hanga, Sōsaku hanga and Superflat.