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Japanese Art After visiting the ‘Dawn of the floating world’ exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, I decided to explore the theme of Japanese art. Japanese art is often reflected in the use of tattoos and tattoos are an indigenous art form and date back along way in the use of Japanese art. Tattoo art played a big role in my piece of coursework with the title ‘dark & light’; one of the tattoo artists who influenced me was the Japanese Tattooist Akio Oki. Akio’s work is based around the designs called Ukiyo-e, which is Japanese for “pictures of the floating world”. Ukiyo- e was one of the most important types of art during the Tokougawa period, (1603 – 1867) in Japan. The style is a mixture of the realistic narrative of the emaki (“picture scrolls”) produced in the Kamakura period and the purely decorative style of the Momoyama and Tokugawa periods. Screen paintings were the first works to be done in the Ukiyo-e style. These depic