Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts

Translated as “pictures of the floating world,” Ukiyo-e developed as a depiction of the worldly pleasures during Japan’s Edo period (1603-1868). More than forty woodcuts feature the ideals of beauty, poetry, nature, love, sex, and spirituality through imagery of sumo wrestlers, geishas, warriors, kabuki actors, and courtesans.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.