New Developments in Edo Culture

I. Chonin or Townsmen Culture:

a. Literature

i. Poetry: the evolution of haikai or haiku poetry

waka 5-7-5-7-7 = the preferred 31 syllable form

renga or linked poetry 5-7-5---> 7-7

haiku 5-7-5

Matsuo Basho 1644-1694

ii. Prose: Ihara Saikaku b. Osaka 1642-1693 in a merchant family

Hakai poet and then turned to humorous and erotic prose writing. Ukiyo-zoshi, a new genre.

* The Life of an Amorous Man ( 好色一代男 , Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko?, 1682)

* The Great Mirror of Beauties: Son of an Amorous Man ( 好色二代男　諸艶大鏡 , Kōshoku Nidai Otoko Shoen Okagami ?, 1684)

* Five Women Who Loved Love ( 好色五人女 , Kōshoku Gonin Onna?, 1685)

* The Life of an Amorous Woman ( 好色一代女 , Kōshoku Ichidai Onna?, 1686) (made into the 1952 movie The Life of Oharu by Kenji Mizoguchi)

* The Great Mirror of Male Love (The Encyclopedia of Male Love) ( 男色大鑑 , Nanshoku Okagami?, 1687)

II. Theatre

Kabuki--the Actor's Stage

Bunraku--Puppet Theatre--the Writer's Stage

Chikamatsu Monzaemon 1653-1724 = "Japan's Shakespeare"

III. Visual Arts

Woodblock Prints Ukiyo-e

Katsushika HOKUSAI 1760-1849 36 Views of Mt. Fuji

Ando HIROSHIGE 1797-1858 53 Stations of the Tokaido

New, urban audiences and consumers for all of these new cultural forms of expressions.