Arts Society North Bucks
Thursday, 9th October 2025 at 11.00 am
Lovat Hall, Silver Street, Newport Pagnell MK16 0EJ
Ukiyo-e, or ‘Pictures of the Floating World’, executed in woodcut, was the dominant Japanese art form between the 17th and 19th centuries.
This historical overview by Carol Wilhide Justin introduces the cultural and political background, key artists, imagery and innovations that led to the ukiyo-e period, and goes on to explore the cross-fertilization that such prints inspired when they first arrived in the West in the 1880s.