From the middle of the 18th century, the urban commoner population in Japan supported a strongly commercialized popular culture, including such diverse, but nonetheless interrelated genres as the kabuki theatre, the multi-coloured woodblock prints (ukiyoe) and the richly illustrated popular novels called kusazoshi.
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From the middle of the 18th century, the urban commoner population in Japan supported a strongly commercialized popular culture, including such diverse, but nonetheless interrelated genres as the kabuki theatre, the multi-coloured woodblock prints (ukiyoe) and the richly illustrated popular novels called kusazoshi.
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