During the Genroku era, it became popular around Osaka and many works were written on wide variety of common people's lives (Ukiyo means not only world in general but matters of love and sensuality).
元禄期、大坂を中心に流行し、民衆生活の幅広い主題を扱って多くの作品が書かれた（浮世には世間一般という意味と、色事、好色といった意味がある）。