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Images of the floating world.(Report from Europe)
The seventeenth century heralded an era of peace and prosperity in Japan known as the Tokugawa, or Edo, period. Named after the old name for Tokyo, the capital city, it lasted from 1603 to 1868 and introduced the concept of the floating world (ukiyo-e), derived from the name of the pleasure quarters that were located on the outskirts of large Japanese towns. These areas were inhabited by those on the fringes of Japanese society and were enlivened by the introduction of teahouses and the Kabuki theater. The new pictorial style that emerged at the time featured the feminine form and tried to show the movements of both the body and the soul.
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At the beginning of the seventeenth century, screens with gold backgrounds were painted with scenes of famous places and of the passage of the seasons. Later they depicted representations of plays, traditional games, banquets, or parades of ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Images of the floating world.(Report from Europe)