"UKIYOE" which is typical art of Japan.
It features UKIYOE of Japan.
Various questions about UKIYOE are featured on this book.
I explain some of those questions.
This is continuation of the last explanation.
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A Question; What kind of place is YOSHIWARA ?
An answer;
Eating, drinking, playing.
[Faithful translation of answer written in this magazine.]
YOSHIWARA is an official recognition prostitution region of the EDO age of Japan.
"The business bachelors BUSHI" gathers for EDO from Japanese every place.
As a result, the male population of EDO was twice the female population.
As a matter of course, prostitution becomes popular.
So, Japanese government thought.
"The prostitutes' free business is not good on the discipline hygiene side !!"
But, this is public principle of the Japanese government.
The true reason was authorizing prostitutes and raising tax revenues.
YOSHIWARA was an institution like the huge theme park made on "the land of the area of 16.34 acre surrounded by the black wall."
[ Though the theme is prostitution.]
And in YOSHIWARA, various people were living besides the prostitute.
About 10,000 people [a prostitute's care staff, ordinary craftsmen, a merchant, etc.] lived in YOSHIWARA.
YOSHIWARA was "the place of yearning" for people.
With the latest interior design and the latest fashion, many very beautiful prostitutes were in YOSHIWARA.
Without money, it cannot even approach prostitutes.
-Longing place and harlots.
EDO may be the fountainhead of Japanese culture.
A Question; Why are all the members the same face?
An answer;
The female face which Utamaro writes has a minute difference.
As for the majority of the ukiyoes at that time, The women in ukiyoe had the same face.
And it was simple UKIYOE for which a showy color is not used.
And Utamaro Kitagawa appeared.
His work became extremely popular.
All faces of women whom he draws have a faint difference.
And women's face and the body were drawn more beautifully than the actual condition.
< Eyes of woman of Kitagawa Utamaro's Ukiyoe >
< Nose of woman of Kitagawa Utamaro's Ukiyoe >
< Mouth of woman of Kitagawa Utamaro's Ukiyoe >
A Question; Is this a beautiful woman?
An answer; This is the woman of the ideal of people in those days.
In the first place, the woman of such a somatotype cannot have existed probably.
Japanese people are short, the head is big and the body of the Japanese is long.
Because the ukiyoe of the beautified woman was popular, the ukiyoe masters drew the ukiyoe of the beautified woman.
In addition, an ukiyoe masters at that time willingly drew a popular town girl.
It is the town girls of cafe.
Finally please see the ukiyoe of "鳥高斎栄昌[Chokosai Eisho]".
This is UKIYOE in which the prostitutes of YOSHIWARA are viewing the cherry blossoms.
Hararie
Tokyo Time
