The AHA! Lecture series presents resident Elizabeth Swinton on The Floating World and the Women of the Pleasure Quarter In the Japanese Edo period (1600-1868), at 11:00 am in the Performance Hall and streaming. Elizabeth Swinton will speak on The Floating World and the Women of the Pleasure Quarter In the Japanese Edo period (1600-1868), a time of dramatic cultural transformation, the reality of contemporary life and the government’s view were continually in opposition. As a result, the pleasure quarter (entertainment district) became a stage on which a version of the new social order was being “performed” and the high-class prostitute became a cultural icon. The illusion that was created transcended reality and life followed art.
