Talk:Chōnindō

The article contains the text, "For the first time, urban populations had the means and leisure time to support a new mass culture. Their search for enjoyment became known as ukiyo (the floating world), an ideal world of fashion and popular entertainment. Professional female entertainers (geisha), music, popular stories, Kabuki and bunraku (puppet theater), poetry, a rich literature, and art, exemplified by beautiful woodblock prints (known as ukiyo-e), were all part of this flowering of culture. Literature also flourished with the talented examples of the playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653 – 1724) and the haiku poet, essayist, and travel writer and Matsuo Basho (1644 – 94)."

These seem more suitable as general descriptions of the Edo period than of chonindo. The arts described don't sound as if they were part of a system of values (do, 道) but just arts of the Edo period. Were these in some intimate way connected to a system of values?

The two people named were both samurai. Can we replace them with examples of chonindo, or show how they link to chonindo?

Alternatively, could we rename the article to broaden the scope to chonin culture, rather than to focus on values? Fg2 11:36, 19 November 2005 (UTC)