The Plum Calendar is known as “the most representative of works in the late Edo genre of ninjobon” (Jones and Watanabe, 2013).
“The heronines of The Plum Calendar fulfill the dictates of the Confucian feminine ideal, living only for and through their man without seeking additional sexual partners,” (Jones and Watanabe, 2013).
Led by Mizuno Tadakuni, in an attempt to bring the early Japanese military, economic, and religious systems to what they were supposed to be, according to the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Readers of modern Japanese literature can still find themes popular from this time period.
Visions of love, relationships, suicide, and sex are all still present in modern literature and film.