"Just live for the moment to admire the splendor of the moonlight, the snow, the cherry blossom-colored leaves maple. We enjoyed the day excited about the wine, without being disappointed human poverty eyes stare. We got carried away, like a pumpkin pulled by the current of the river without losing heart for an instant. This is what we call the floating world, the passing world. "
(Asai Ryoi, Legends of the Floating World, writer and Buddhist monk of the Edo period, ca. 1661)
* "UKIYO - E is a Buddhist stem term, which refers to the concept of transience, impermanence. And this is the concept will then be used to describe the art of Japanese period covering the years 1602 to 1867 and reflects the everyday pleasures ephemeral, fluctuating in the city of Edo (now Tokyo). The art of Ukiyo-e shows the Japanese people in their daily lives by attending the theater or KABUKI popular neighborhoods Yoshiwara red lamps (called "houses of pleasure forbidden") established in the city since 1657. "
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