Anne Nishimura Morse - Drama and Desire - 1977

Anne Nishimura Morse - Drama and Desire * Japanese Paintings from the Floating World, 1690-1850

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 2007 - Hardcover with dustjacket - 30x26 - New copy.

Drama and Desire presents. 69 masterpieces of Japanese ukiyo-e painting by such renowned masters as Hokusai, Utamaro and Harunobu, among others--all depicting aspects of the so-called "floating world," the licentious demimonde of Edo where actors and courtesans, rich patrons and bohemians, cavorted.
While woodblock prints of the floating world have long been a favorite of art lovers, the erotic ink-and-dye paintings of the period are far less known and much less available.