This title is an introduction to the important artists of the Edo period Japan and their work, as well as the issues and concepts surrounding the production and
Designed for Pleasure is a dazzling probe of Japan's famous "floating world" of spectacle and entertainment. From luxury paintings of the pleasure qurters to Ho
The Edo period saw the growth of an urban culture of extraordinary richness, sophistication and cultural diversity, and an unprecendented flowering of the arts,