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Paperback Designed for Pleasure: The World of EDO Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860 Book

ISBN: 0295987863

ISBN13: 9780295987866

Designed for Pleasure: The World of EDO Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860

Designed for Pleasure brings together paintings, prints, and illustrated books featuring images known as ukiyo-e, or pictures of the floating world. The carefully selected images present the principals of that realm - the actor, the artist, the courtesan, the poet, the publisher, the patron - and they also reveal the confluences and contradictions in a time of enormous social, cultural, and economic change in Japan.This book examines the floating...

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