Beauties of the Floating World

Madrid, Spain
Beauties of the Floating World

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© Real Academia de Bellas Artes

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Utamaro, Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi...

The Movement

Ukiyo-e

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Step into 18th-century Japan without leaving Madrid.

At the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando you can discover 77 original woodblock prints by the great ukiyo-e masters — Utamaro, Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi… works that once inspired the French Impressionists, now on display in the heart of Madrid.

Beauty, elegance, colour — and a few surprises

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