WORDS BY COURTNEY ROSBOROUGH
Above. Princess Takiyasha Calling Up a Monstrous Skeleton Spectre at the Haunted Old Palace at Sōma, c. 1844-1848, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861).
HOME RENOVATION ISSUE 2014
THE JAPANESE UKIYO-E ART FORM OF FOUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO DEPICTED SCENES OF THE EVERYDAY SO THAT COMMONERS COULD PURCHASE IMAGES OF THE FLOATING WORLD THAT ENGULFED THEM—AS A REMINDER THAT THEY MUST ENJOY LIFE WHILE IT LASTS.
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