The Floating World: Japanese Hanging Scrolls

Ukiyo-e painting offers a fascinating glimpse of the culture of the floating world, a world of actors and courtesans and elegant pastimes which flourished in Edo, the vibrant capital of Japan. During the Edo period (1600-1868) numerous artists recorded every aspect of this colorful scene in scroll paintings.

The collection of the Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, assembled by Kikumatsu Imanishi, provides a representative overview of Ukiyo-e painting: it contains paintings by such important masters as Nishikawa Sukenobu, Hosoda Eishi, Katsushika Hokusai, and Kawanabe Kyosai, and a series of works by artists of the Utagawa school.

Menno Fitshki is curator of East Asian Art at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Foreword

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Ukiyo-e paintings from the Imanishi collection Menno Fitski

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The mount and Ukiyo-e Yasuo Asoshina

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Catalogue

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Signatures and seals

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List of works

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Glossary

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Literature

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Index

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Colofon

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The Floating World: Japanese Hanging Scrolls from the Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art

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