Rural Occupations: Images of Work in Edo-Period Art

In this exhibition of artwork created during the Edo (1615–1868) and Meiji (1868–1912) of pre-modern Japan, urban and rural workers are largely depicted as living idealized, agrarian lives. The New Orleans Museum of Art adds context to these images, studying how they served to emphasize the society's class systems, using the role of the worker as a symbol of a stable and prosperous society. noma.org.