Japanese woodblock prints reveal Meiji-era medical knowledge
September 6, 2010 by JapanGuide
Filed under Japan Today
Japanese woodblock prints, known as as ukiyo-e, are usually referred to as “Pictures of the floating world”, representing the impermanent fleeting beauty of life, or of other worlds. But in a collection from the University of California San Francisco, some are also revealed to be informative and very much about the dangers of mundane every day life.
