A celebration of the classic Japanese art of woodblock prints. Through the 18th and 19th century this form dominated visual art in Japan and persists today as both a major influence on graphic art and as the traditional form of Japanese art popular in the rest of the world. After a short introduction covering the history and technique of Japanese print making, the book features a collection of reproduced examples of masterpieces of the genre, with short biographies of the artists, many of which are already familiar images in thousands of homes in the West.