The Floating World: the story of Japanese prints / James A. Michener

Identifier:REF.AM.2043

Dimensions:403 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm

Copyright dates:1954

Subjects: Japanese, graphic arts, prints

Description:"The Floating World is a lively and authoritative account of the great age--approximately 1660 to 1860--of Japanese prints and of the artists who created them. The age in which these men flourished was robust, colorful and art-fostering, even though it fell entirely within the period of the powerful Tokugawa dictatorship, which ruled Japan absolutely from 1603 until 1867 and placed constant legal restraints on creativity. Mr. Micherner shows how the Japanese print-makers... were able to keep it their art vital for two centuries only because there were enough vigorous and determined men with original minds to keep it going." -- front flap Includes glossary and index.