Ukiyo
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Ukiyo (
The famous Japanese woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e, or "pictures of the floating world", had their origins in these districts, and often depicted scenes of the floating world itself such as geisha, kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, samurai, merchants, and prostitutes.
The term "ukiyo" in medieval Japan was associated with Buddhism and meant "this transient, unreliable world".[2] When written as meaning "the floating world", is also an ironic, homophonous allusion to the earlier Buddhist term ukiyo (
In its modern usage, the term ukiyo is used to refer to a state of mind emphasising living in the moment, detached from the difficulties of life.[citation needed]
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- ^ The Compact Nelson, Japanese-English Character Dictionary, Charles E. Tuttle Company, Tokyo 1999, ISBN 4-8053-0574-6
- ^ a b Lane, Richard (1962). Masters of the Japanese Print. Thames and Hudson. p. 10.
- ^ "
憂 き世 の意味 -古文 辞書 - Weblio古語 辞典 ". kobun.weblio.jp.