Ukiyo-e
浮世絵

​Throughout the Edo Period of Japan, the art of woodblock prints called Ukiyo-e, translated as “pictures of the floating world”, came to be an established part of folklore of the urban class. Illustrating everything from red-light districts, to folktales, to the scenic beauty of the Japanese countryside, Ukiyo-e prints and their production and consumption became ingrained as a part of the lives of Edo townsfolk, or Chōnin, coming to be both a celebration of the folklore of their group as a whole, as well as a way for them to test the bounds of the Tokugawa social structure.