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Suikoden Heroes & Gods @kyoto.tsujibori Simple yet powerful, Japanese art rouses a transaction of underlying melancholy under beauty, complexity beneath simplicity and curiosity within contours of subject and colours. Traditional arts in Japan is not only acknowledged for their “less is more” ideology that delivers such as a powerful punch, but it was also the thoughtfulness and emotions invested within their genres and styles that enables their native traditions to truly the past and present. The embracement of the human imagination in Japan can be dated back since the Heian Period, but one of the most prominent age that established a common love for the country and a prosperous beginning in the Japanese culture, was the Edo Period (1603 – 1868). CLASS SYSTEM Deemed as the golden age, the military leader or the shogunate, Tokugawa, established his own government after centuries of war and conflict, and embarked on a social hierarchy system. He visualized a division of two major class. Those with prominent status, and four subdivision classes: Samurai, Peasants, Artisans and Merchants. 3 Birth Of Irezumi