This volume reproduces 139 Japanese woodblock colour prints by 43 famous masters of ukiyo-e, the popular art of the 17th to the 19th century.

"From the 17th through the 19th century, artists in Kyoto and Edo (now Tokyo) captured the metropolitan amusements of the floating world (ukiyo in Japanese) through depictions of subjects such as the beautiful women of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters and performers of the kabuki theater. In contrast to ukiyo-e prints by artists such as Katsushika Hokusai, which were widely circulated, ukiyo-e paintings were specially commissioned, unique objects that...

The Sixty-nine stations of the Kiso Kaidō, or, Sixty-nine stations of the Kiso Road, commonly referred to as 'The Sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō', is a series of ukiyo-e works created by Utagawa Hiroshige, also known as Andō Hiroshige, and Keisai Eisen.