Travel Tip: Art and Archaeology in England The Dawn of the Floating World 1650–1765
The Dawn of the Floating World 1650–1765: Early Ukiyo-e Treasures from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ENGLAND LONDON • Royal Academy of Arts • Ongoing
This exhibition focuses on the early developments of Japanese prints and genre-painting by the leading artists of the period. On display for the first time are highlights of the early ukiyo-e holdings of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Ukiyo-e or ‘pictures of the floating world’ provide an incomparable record of Japanese life. In depicting the daily life and literature of the pleasure quarters and entertainment districts of Edo (present day Tokyo), ukiyo-e artists captured the ‘floating’, transient world of pleasurable amusements: the refined world of the courtesan and the popular theatre of the kabuki actor. Innovative ukiyo-e artists such as Hishikawa Moronobu (d. 1694) and Okumura Masanobu (1686-1764) are featured, as well as the masters of the Kaigetsudo and Torii Schools. Today these paintings and prints are considered among the rarest and most highly valued of Japanese art works
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