Floating Bridge of Heaven (Ama no ukihashi) : [volume 1]
Floating Bridge of Heaven is a Japanese woodblock print volume of erotic (shunga) illustrations by Yanagawa Shigenobu, published in Japan in 1830 and aimed at a private adult readership. The pictures show intimate interiors with richly patterned textiles, screens and lacquer, and their dense decorative surfaces, flat colour fields and strong outlines offer a designer examples of Edo-period patterning and composition.
![Picture 1 of 5 from Floating Bridge of Heaven (Ama no ukihashi) : [volume 1] (1830), leaf 2](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_17986-2-1.webp)
![Picture 2 of 5 from Floating Bridge of Heaven (Ama no ukihashi) : [volume 1] (1830), leaf 5](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_17986-5-1.webp)
![Picture 3 of 5 from Floating Bridge of Heaven (Ama no ukihashi) : [volume 1] (1830), leaf 6](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_17986-6-1.webp)
![Picture 4 of 5 from Floating Bridge of Heaven (Ama no ukihashi) : [volume 1] (1830), leaf 14](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_17986-14-1.webp)
![Picture 5 of 5 from Floating Bridge of Heaven (Ama no ukihashi) : [volume 1] (1830), leaf 21](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_17986-21-1.webp)