This is the first series of books to gather together the full panorama of ukiyo-e - \\\"pictures of the floating world\\\" - from its inception in early genre paintings to the versatile genius of such masters as Hokusai....

Rembrandt, Velazquez, and Toshusai Sharaku have been called the greatest portrait artists of all time. Of the three, Sharaku\'s name is undoubtedly the least widely known....