The famous Japanese woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world”, had their origins in these districts, and often depicted scenes of the floating world itself such as geisha, kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, samurai, merchants, and prostitutes. The term “ukiyo”, when written as meaning “the floating world”, is also an ironic, homophonous … Continue reading Post-Apocalyptic Ukiyo-e