Renegade Edo and ParisA critical look at the renegade spirit that permeates Japanese prints and the posters of fin de sicle Paris Both the Edo period (16031868) in Japan and the late nineteenth century in France witnessed a multitude of challenges to the status quo from the rising middle class. In Edo (present day Tokyo), townspeople pursued hedonistic lifestyles as a way of defying the state sanctioned social hierarchy that positioned them at the bottom. Their new