Chance to brush up on Japanese culture at Chester Beatty

Antiques & Fine Art: Des O'Sullivan checks out upcoming painting and printmaking exhibitions 

‘Kaminarimon Gate at Kannon Temple Asakusa’ by Tamagawa Schucho.

With the Olympics less than two weeks away, there is right now a rare chance to brush up on matters Japanese — specifically the floating world known as ukiyo-e that expressed the ambitions of the common townspeople of the Edo period — at the marvellous Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Castle.

Edo in Colour: Prints from Japan’s Metropolis explores how woodblock prints shaped fashion, fame and identity in Edo, the city now known as Tokyo.