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Picturing the Floating World
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Julie Nelson Davis
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-31 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Today we think of ukiyo-e—“the pictures of the floating world”—as masterpieces of Japanese art, highly prized throughout the world. Yet it is often said
Painting the Floating World
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: Janice Katz
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-08 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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From the 17th through the 19th century, artists in Kyoto and Edo (now Tokyo) captured the metropolitan amusements of the floating world (ukiyo in Japanese) thro
Tattoos of the Floating World
Language: en
Pages: 124
Authors: Takahiro Kitamura
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Kit Pub

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This work discusses the art of the Japanese tattoo in the context of Ukiyo-e, focusing on the parallel histories of the woodblock print and the tattoo.
The Floating World
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: John Warwicker
Categories: Graphic arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:

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The Floating World: Ukiyo-e is the first monograph on Warwicker's work. Rather than simply collect old work from commercial commissions and personal projects, W
Images from the Floating World
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Richard Lane
Categories: Color prints, Japanese
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03 - Publisher: Konecky & Konecky

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U-kiyo-e, the Japanese woodblock print tradition was one of the highpoints of classical Japanese civilization. Written by one of the foremost experts on Japanes