A comprehensive survey of the history of Japanese woodblock prints, This works illustrated with an overview of social conditions, printing techniques,rtists, en

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

The art of Japanese woodblock printing, known as ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world"), reflects the rich history and way of life in Japan hundreds of year

A collection of nearly four hundred Japanese woodcuts from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries is accompanied by technical and biographical data on the

Published to accompany an exhibition of the Library of Congress' collections of Ukiyo-e prints.