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Ukiyo-E: Japanese Prints Of The Floating World, University Of Richmond Museums
Ukiyo-E: Japanese Prints Of The Floating World, University Of Richmond Museums
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Ukiyo-e: Japanese Prints of the Floating World
March 3 to April 17, 1994
Marsh Art Gallery
Introduction
This ukiyo-e exhibition reveals the tantalizing range of images in Japanese prints of the floating world. A seventeenth-century Japanese writer described that world as: "singing songs, drinking wine, and diverting ourselves just in floating, floating ... like a gourd with the river current." Reflecting a sense of the world as an ephemeral place of no lasting value, the floating world was an escape from the present into fantasy and pleasure. Hopefully, our exhibition will entice you to pursue your own escape into that …