06yo-e literally means *pictures of the floating world This print
miaking art was developed during the Edo Pemod (1603-1868)
For more than 200 years Ihe country was closed to all foretgn
Inftuences。 so that life in the Cities Wag fully devoted to pleasure
and art. ょを MNO
CAyyo_-e were mass-produced thanks to the new PrIinting
fechiique, Numbered copies would be made-in greater or 半
3 BtteUspendh on the stature of the arist-and NE
je original block was destroyed in order to ensure that buyers
ownied sommething unique。 Kyo-e prints usually represent typr
al scenes of the period。 such as Kg5uy theater pertormmances,
pertraits of 9e/577, sg74C7g7, SO77O wiestlers, people traveling on
垢e jokaido route (from Kyoto to Edo/Tokyo), and rice harvesting
with Mount Fuji in Ihe background. を作移っい1
