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Pictures of the Floating World

其他書名	Japanese Prints from the Collection
出版	National Gallery of Victoria, 2005
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Eoa8tgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Ukiyo-e (uki - floating, yo - world, e - pictures), literally, pictures of the floating world, was applied to the popular arts of painting, woodblock prints and illustrated books that depicted life in the great urban centres of Japan in the Tokugawa period (1615 1888). This is a catalogue to the National Gallery of Victoria exhibition which presents more than a hundred Japanese woodblock prints depicting subjects that include; beautiful women (Bijin-ga), actors of the Kabuki Theatre, landscapes and Samurai Warriors. Also included in the exhibition are the preparatory ink drawings, tools and examples explaining the different stages of the woodblock printing process.