Japanese Prints in Transition: From the Floating World to the Modern World

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Japanese print culture, which had flourished for more than a century with the production of color woodcuts, dramatically changed course in 1868 following the overthrow of the shogun and the elevation of an emperor who promoted modernization and engagement with the West.    Japanese Prints in Transition: From the Floating World to the Modern World tells the story of this artistic shift, presenting outstanding examples of prints from both eras — the “floating world” and the modern world — and documenting the…