LANE, Richard

Images from the Floating World (The Japanese Print)

New York: Dorset Press, 1982. 11.25 x 9.5 inches. 364 pages. Boards; dust jacket. A fine copy in a near-fine lightly shelfworn jacket, short tear at bottom of front panel. Item #408074
ISBN: 0880290072

"Ukiyo-e, the Japanese woodblock print tradition was one of the highpoints of classical Japanese civilization. Written by one of the foremost experts on Japanese prints, Images from the Floating World provides the definitive history of this wonderfully graceful and evocative artistic tradition. Ukiyo-e gives an incomparable record of Japanese life during the heyday of the geisha and the samurai."

Price: $50.00