yanito_tokugawa_period

**Publishing during the Tokugawa period**
In the Tokugawa period publishing was important for many reasons because, a publishing industry flourshied in Edo and in other major cities. In literate society the demand for printed information was novels, poetry, maps, guide books, and even woodblock prints.

From this there was a lot of authors such as the famous poet Matsuo Basho who wrote poems and prose on with another Jippensha ikku who wrote novels. After their writing of books they done, promted painters and print artists illustrated the places they both made famous of their stories.

The production had to have four people to help such as, the artist who had to draw the design, the carver who carved the design onto the cherry wood blocks, the printer who put the color on the block and the print to paper, and finally the publisher who made the amounts of how much they are and sold them to the public.

Everyone who had heard of the woodblock prints bought and collected them but they were expensive and for travelers of edo bought them and made them as souveniers, so woodblock prints that was so popular at this time wass known as "art of floating world."

The woodblock prints made its way around the country of Japan and its people, where they lived. And the people who lived in villages learned about the city ways just from the detailed prints.