The contemporary novelist Asai Ryōi, in his Ukiyo monogatari (浮世物語 "Tales of the Floating World", c. 1661), provides some insight into the concept of the floating world:
... Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maple leaves; singing songs, drinking wine, diverting ourselves in just floating, floating; ... refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current: this is what we call the floating world...[1]
Described as the 'pleasure era' the fantasy becomes a reality....essentially this is what occurs through the manifesting of fantastical simulations within Second Life....
Links to eroticism and sexualisation of virtual space. DREAMS AND HALLUCINATION
Blurring fantasy and reality through virtuality
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