Ukiyo-e 42, UKy-9, Handbag - Kuniyoshi, The Sixteen Arahats (Lohan)Ukiyo e Bag The Sixteen Arahats. Art inspires fashion Exotic style fashion. Ukiyo e (Japanese, meaning "Pictures of the Floating World"). Ukiyo e depicts and records the life of Japanese people in the Edo period. It represents Japanese art of 17 19 centuries. The Sixteen Arahats (Lohan) Arahat: "one who is worthy" or a "perfected person" in Buddhism. This painting is a theatrical parody of the Sixteen Arahats (Mitate juroku rakan). Created in 184752