Prints, in the ukiyo (floating world) style, depict everyday life and pastimes of early 19th-century Japan’s prosperous urban dwellers. Prints are not framed, and borrowers must agree to standards of ...

His art combines these Japanese influences with Western forms, resulting in works of fresh originality. While inspired by the traditions of the past, Teraoka speaks compellingly to the modern world ..

(Ukiyo-e means, roughly, “pictures of a floating world.”) Within decades of the publication of the Sixty-Nine Stations of the Nakasendō, the Edo Period would come to an end, Japan would begin ...