Both the scenes that make up Ukiyo-e prints, as well as its intended audience and consumers, mainly revolve around the everyday livelihoods and popular culture of the Edo period urban population in Japan, or Chōnin. The themes present with Ukiyo-e express the folklore of the Chōnin as a whole, with while the prints themselves being an object of material folklore, in their compositions is a depiction of the other verbal, material, and customary folklore performed by the Chōnin as well. The main topics portrayed in Ukiyo-e involve mythical and historical events, famous landscapes and destinations, and depictions of everyday town life in the Edo Period. Of particular focus to Ukiyo-e art was the culture and folklore involved with the Yukaku, or red-light districts that played a prominent and important part of entertainment in Chōnin society. Ukiyo-e prints were mainly distributed in these red-light districts and portrayed many of the entertainments that one could find there, from pictures of famous Kabuki actors striking poses and pictures of beautiful women or courtesans known as Bijin-ga, to prints of completely sexually explicit scenes known as Shunga (Ellis 2019; Sims, Martha, and Martine Stephens 2011; Thompson 1986, 1-29).