INSPIRED BY JAPANESE PRINTSVIKING Fist published in 1998 by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Viking, A Member of Penguin Putnam inc, 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 100 ‘and Penguin Books Cenads, Lic, 10 Alcom Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada MV 389 4,USA Copyright © 1998 by The Metropolitan Museum of Art Introduction, instructions, diagrams, andl models © 1998 by Steve and Megumi Bid! All rights reserved ISBN 0-87099-866-8 MMA ISBN 0-670-88906-2 Viki ‘All wotks of at are Japanese prints from the collections of The letropolitan Museum of Art Produced loy the Department of Special Publica Publishing Manager, Robie Rogge; Ecitoy, Mary Beth Brewer, Proc s, The Metropolitan Museum of Art ion, Tetana Ginsberg Text on the Japanese prints by Donna Welton, Assistant Curator, Dep. tment of Asian Art Photogrehy ofthe Japanese prints by The Mé Pres yaph Studio paltan Museum of Art P raphy of the crigam: models by les Mars Design by Miriam Berman, with Sophia Stawopoulos Printed in Hong Kong ‘Without limiting the rights under cx roduced, stort in oF i means (electronic, mechanics Permission of both the copyright ight reserved above, no part of tis publication may be tuced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any frm or by any hotocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written owner and the above publisher of ths