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Today we think of ukiyo-e - 'the pictures of the floating world' - as masterpieces of Japanese art. Yet it is often said that ukiyo-e were little appreciated in their own time. Julie Nelson Davis debunks this myth and demonstrates that ukiyo-e was thoroughly appreciated as a field of artistic production, worthy of connoisseurship by contemporaries.

Picturing the Floating World: Ukiyo-e in Context