Floating World in Japanese Fiction

Hibbitt (Harvard U.) describes the fiction built around floating worlds that was popular among the prosperous, creative, and illegitimate shopkeepers and entertainers at the bottom of the Japanese feudal order during the 17th and 18th centuries. The first edition was published in 1959 by Oxford University Press. Cited in Books for College Libraries, 3rd ed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)