Picturing The Floating World: Ukiyo-E In Context

Today we think of ukiyo-e - 'the pictures of the floating world' - as masterpieces of Japanese art. Yet it is often said that ukiyo-e were little appreciated in their own time. Julie Nelson Davis debunks this myth and demonstrates that ukiyo-e was thoroughly appreciated as a field of artistic production, worthy of connoisseurship by contemporaries.

• | By (Author): Julie Nelson Davis
• | Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 31, 2021
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0824889215
• | ISBN-13: 9780824889210