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Floating World: Japan in the Edo Period

by John Reeve · 2006

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Ukiyo-e are paintings and prints of 'the floating world' of Edo (Tokyo), which had transformed itself in just a century from a swampy village to a metropolis of about a million people. This book offers a glimpse of a vanished world that is fresh and visually rewarding to modern eyes.

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Audience
adult
Length
short · 96 pages

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