Introduction

Exhibition Sections

Hishikawa Moronobu
Okumura Masanobu
Suzuki Harunobu
Katsukawa Shunshō
Tsutaya Jūzaburō
Hokusai and His Circle
The Nineteenth Century

Reference

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Media

The New York Observer
"Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860... is a trying experience because the awe it elicits is unremitting. Has there been a New York exhibition quite as beautiful?"

The New York Sun

The New York Times
"In the theaters, teahouses and brothels of Edo, pleasure was a serious business.... Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860 anchors the floating world firmly in economic and social reality."

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The New Yorker
"Japanese ukiyo-e, 'pictures of the floating world,' combined graphic elegance with titillation, depicting cherry-blossom festivals and bawdy Zen stories, actors and courtesans, musicales and other, more private entertainments."