Images of the Floating World

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150409-the-wave-that-swept-the-world

This is a fascinating art article about how the influences of Japanese ukiyo-e (images of the floating world) heavily influenced European impressionism when Japan dropped its isolationist policies in 1850s. 

Divan Japonais, 1892–93
Henri de Toulouse–Lautrec