In volume one of this research we talked about how ukiyo-e erotica and shunga confuse their boundaries and make an interesting artistic limbo that allow some people to categorize those works as part of a genre or part of movement. We talked about erotica and the…

There was a kimono that was cursed. It was beautiful one, red with an embroidered crane and flowers flying…

The two-thousand-yen bank note is one of the most interesting jewels of the current Japanese…

There is a myth about the 84.000 statues of this temple. More than a myth, a truth altered by time and history.

Ukiyo-e has become an icon of Japanese culture, and inside this icon you can find probably the biggest piece of Japanese imaginary: The great wave off Kanagawa; and with it, the positioning of Katsushita Hokusai (1760–1849) as the main artist of this period. And even if…