The Kisokaido route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country’s then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage between Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto. Inns, shops, an Zobraziť viac
Known as shunga or “spring pictures”, the erotica of Katsushika Hokusai, Japan’s most celebrated artist, combined brash sensuality with playful humor to show carnality in the most varied constellations. This edition presents his own contribution to a... Zobraziť viac
The most distinguished artist of Edo-period Japan, explored like never before... Zobraziť viac
From Edouard Manet’s portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh’s meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected, 19th-century pioneers of European modernism made no secret of their love... Zobraziť viac
