Article: Drama and desire; Japanese painting from the floating world; 1690-1850.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: JAPANESE PAINTING SOARS IN `ENDURING ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  April 25, 2003 ;     690 words ... ... its dangerous tail, and Sengai Gibon presented the "Gods of Good Fortune" as fat and happy fools. Beauties from the "Floating World" are beauties forever, girls in their finery by Teisai Hokuba and Takizawa Shigenobu. The real treasures are the landscapes ...

Article: CD REVIEW: 'Floating World' a bit out there
University Wire;  March 30, 2006 ;     630 words ... ... U-WIRE) NORMAL, Ill. -- "Floating World," the first full-length CD from ... thrashing wind sent its members into the floating world." The story is somewhat mysterious ... imagery and symbolism not unlike "Floating World." The insert that accompanies the ...

Article: Anchoring a 'floating world' of pleasure
International Herald Tribune;  March 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Tribune 03-15-2008 Anchoring a 'floating world' of pleasure Byline: Karen Rosenberg ... woodcuts that depicted ukiyo, the "floating world" of leisure and luxury. Ukiyo-e ... Paintings, 1680- 1860," anchors the floating world firmly in economic and social reality ...

Article: Wonders of the Floating World
The Scotsman;  May 14, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... ukiyo-e (literally, "Prints of the Floating World") including works by Utamaro, Eisen ... ask "what on earth are prints of the Floating World"? They are, in fact, among the ... that are in good condition. But why "floating world"? The prints were designed and made ...

Article: Snapshots of a 'Floating World'
The Washington Post;  October 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... offered tantalizing glimpses of the "floating world" of 18th- and 19th-century Japanese ... opening of its impressive show, "The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams and ... e actually means "pictures of the floating world." That doesn't refer to images ...

Article: CD REVIEW: Anathallo's 'Floating World' within ...
University Wire;  October 30, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Truth be told, their latest album, "Floating World," contains plenty of theatrics to ... hardly do Anathallo justice. Within "Floating World"'s fourteen tracks is an underlying ... six years. As the title suggests, "Floating World" is a testament to Anathallo's ambitiousness ...

Article: Flavors of Asia; Midori's Floating World Caf? Opens ...
Asian Pages;  March 14, 2003 ;     634 words ... ... 10 when we blustered into Midori's Floating World Caf near Lake Street and Minnehaha ... the Longfellow neighborhood its own "Floating World." Depicted in the ukiyo-e art of ... 17th - 19th centuries, the mystical "Floating World" is a buoyant one filled with the ...