The three people - Saikaku IHARA who wrote Ukiyozoshi (Literally, Books of the Floating World), a joruri writer Monzaemon CHIKAMATSU and a haikai poet Basho MATSUO – have left major marks in it.
そこにおおきな足跡を残したのが、浮世草子の井原西鶴、浄瑠璃の近松門左衛門、俳諧の松尾芭蕉の三人である。