Spent a very jolly afternoon at the Asian Civilisations Museum with Noi and Fifi. It's well worth a visit simply for the standing exhibitions but we were there specifically for the Life in Edo special exhibition featuring some glorious woodblock prints. I didn't realise that the prints were accompanied by a display of some photos by Russel Wong based around the present day equivalent of the floating world, but I was happy that they were given the simple beauty of his work.
Poring over the various prints it struck me I could have happily spent a few days just looking at them. And more than that, I realised that this period, these artists and their aesthetic represent what is far and away my favourite form of visual art.
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