UNDERCURRENTS In The FLOATING WORLD: Censorship and Japanese Prints.

by Sarah E.; Harootunian H. D. Thompson

Helpful review of censorship and how it was applied to prints, the changing face of censorship processes and how those related to initiatives by the Tokugawa government aimed at maintaining the four-tier design of society that they had imposed from the beginning of their shogunate and which increasingly became frayed over time.

Genres: Japan, Art

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992