This exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints illuminates an art form springing from Japan's Edo or Tokogawa period (1615-1868). The artworks portray the ukiyo-e "floating world" in elegant, otherworldly landscapes and scenes of leisure and pleasure. Each piece was printed as part of a series.
Utagawa Hiroshige, Oji, Taki no Kawa #88 (The Waterfall River at Oji #88) from the series Meisho Yedo Hyakkei (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo), 1856, color woodblock print, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, gift of Wallace B. Rogers.
Published June 13, 2013