Ukiyo-e-Zoo

For the legacy left us by the artists who created the "floating world pictures", the engravers who cut their visions into cherrywood, the printers who pressed the "baren" into the mulberry-bark paper and pulled the sheets back to reveal the glorious views of Edo; these pages are dedicated.

Shunsho Yoshitoshi Hiroshige Utamaro

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These images were cultivated from the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco's Imagebank, with thousands of artworks online. Special thanks to FAMSF.

Last Updated by kingbee on 2:35 AM 6/13/2003