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A Study on the Women’s Customs in the Ukiyo-e in the Kansei Period

milim Lee 1

1성결대학교

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This research newly covered Japanese woodblock prints drawn by Utamaro and Kitagawa school as a basic material for women’s customs such as cosmetics, hairstyle, costumes culture, etc which became popular in the latter period of Edo period. Japanese woodblock prints is, in short, an Edo period genre painting. At that time, quite a number of subjects were drawn on the Japanese woodblock prints, including An actor’s picture depicting the stage of the popular actor and private life, and A prostitute portrait depicting the beautiful Prostitute of Yoshiwara. Yoshiwara was called bad places of City of Edo, but ironically it was a representative cultural attraction of the city. Yoshiwara was a noncontiguous space separated from the Edo, but it was a sustainable space that constantly had a deep connection to the Edo through the Japanese woodblock prints. In the culture of Edo today, most of the things Japanese are proud of and picked up have bloomed around fleshpot. As I mentioned in the text, the point that a common-class woman imitated the customs of prostitute et al. Without sacrificing to sash, hairstyle and a kimono was never ended by The Tokugawa shogunate period. A high level prostitute Tayu is an enchanting existence for Edo male, City of Edo women as a fashion leader in Tokyo as an unusual existence parallel with the real life of the city, sustainably, Edo It was. Yoshiwara brothels was a noncontiguous space separated from Edo, but it was also a sustainable space that constantly had a deep connection with the Edo through the Japanese woodblock prints. Japanese woodblock prints was an important medium that demonstrated the function as a medium that uplifted Edo culture with constantly disseminating the special culture produced in Yoshiwara brothels to Edo. In daringly speaking, the culture of Edo is also the culture of Yoshiwara brothels.

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