Hotties from ancient Japan on your iPhone

The Chiba City Museum of Art near Tokyo has one of the larges ukiyo-e (art of the floating world) woodblock print collections in the world. Appliya collaborated with the museums’ curators to create Ukiyo-e Beauties, an app that puts high-res, digitally restored versions of geisha-like women on your iPhone screen. Great for those who have an appreciation for Japanese art, or who prefer Japanese women that don’t look like underage anime characters. [Get it on iTunes]

1. [strider_mt2k]

   That image made me think of “The Best of Emerson Lake, and Palmer” at first glance.

   http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/94/cover_1131101112008.jpg

2. [gnosis]

   Just bought it – thanks!

3. [michaelportent]

   Sweet!

   This is great for bringing old art to a new format, certainly – but I really think budding artists should use the iPhone as a way to propagate new art as a way to generate buzz around exhibits.

4. [Anonymous]

   “underage anime characters” = redundancy^3

5. [Anonymous]

   underage anime characters = FTW