num_pages: 96
description: Ukiyo-e are paintings and prints of 'the floating world' of Edo (Tokyo), which had transformed itself in just a century from a swampy village to a metropolis of about a million people. This book offers a glimpse of a vanished world that is fresh and visually rewarding to modern eyes.
language: English
title: Floating World: Japan in the Edo Period
titlecomplete: Floating World: Japan in the Edo Period
genres: Japan, History, Art
ratings_count: 14
publisher: British Museum Press