{"product_id":"japanese-kite-prints","title":"Japanese Kite Prints","description":"Color woodblock prints vibrantly convey the popular urban culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Edo, now called Tokyo. In a book that brings together two of Edo's most colorful traditions, prints and kites, John Stevenson celebrates the charm and significance of the mass-produced but often elegant broadsheets known as ukiyo-e. The term means \"pictures of the floating world,\" a pun on a Buddhist concept of the fleeting world of desires that is, coincidentally but poetically, appropriate for a study of kites borne on the wind. Edo artists experimented with woodblock-printing techniques during the eighteenth century as kite-flying became increasingly popular. Each influenced the other: kite-makers copied woodblock-print designs to decorate their creations of bamboo, cloth, and paper, and printers used images of kites in their designs.","brand":"Texas Bookman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49667969974520,"sku":"2407031","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/9626\/9304\/files\/128128e00b28d2c3219f5b04296351c908b23ae63c69e9cf7bfb03cad16d7b04.jpg?v=1782494588","url":"https:\/\/shelter-goods.com\/products\/japanese-kite-prints","provider":"Shelter Goods","version":"1.0","type":"link"}