Excerpt from Pictures of the Floating World The march of peoples is always toward the West, wherefore, the earth being round, in time the West must be East agai

The Floating World by novelist James A. Michener is a classic work on the Japanese print of the Edo period (1615-1868). Mr. Michener shows how the Japanese prin

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