Tulipomania

Japanese: tulipomania
Tulipomania

...However, tulips were brought to Europe by land from Turkey, and after becoming popular in France and Germany, they reached the Netherlands, but it was in this country in the 1630s that their cultivation became a great craze. This phenomenon was called "tulipomania" (tulip mania), and in Dumas the Elder's later painting "The Black Tulip," people competed to develop new varieties, offering a prize of "the amount of a warship." However, in the 18th century, Europe gradually shifted from aristocratic luxury to bourgeois sturdiness, and horticulture began to show a certain degree of stability. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "tulipomania" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…ただしチューリップはトルコ地方から陸路ヨーロッパにもたらされ,フランス,ドイツなどで流行したのちにオランダに達したが,その栽培が大流行を招いたのは1630年代のこの国においてであった。〈チューリポマニアtulipomania(チューリップ狂い)〉と呼ばれる現象で,のちにデュマ(父)が《黒いチューリップ》で描いたところでは,〈軍艦1隻分に相当する金額〉の賞金をかけて,新品種の開発を競ったとされる。しかし18世紀に入るとヨーロッパは貴族的な奢侈(しやし)から市民階級的な堅実さにしだいに移行し,園芸もそれなりの落着きを見せはじめた。…

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