The year 1603 marked the beginning of the Tokugawa Era in Japan, also known as the Edo Period ... Popular themes were nature and town life. The most sampled ukiyo-e, even over a century later ...

We venture to the outskirts of Edo just after sunset, where a group of women and children have come to a stream to enjoy a popular summer activity. What could they be looking for among the weeds?

The exhibition, tucked into a downtown shopping mall, invites patrons to step into scenes of nature and village life depicted by the master of Edo Period ... known as ukiyo-e to new artistic ...