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	Kyoto Guide - Japan Reference
		Kyoto is one of the rare cities (with Nara) which was spared the US carpet bombing during WWII in order to preserve the cultural heritage.
		Kyoto is on the main shinkansen (bullet train) line, which makes it easily reachable from Tokyo (2h30min to 3h, ￥13,720).
		Kyoto is just a short train ride away from Osaka (15min by shinkansen or 30min by regular train, respectively ￥3,130 and ￥540), Nara (40min, ￥610) or Nagoya (35min by shinkansen, ￥5,840).
	www.jref.com /practical/kyoto.shtml (443 words)

	Kyoto Guesthouses - Kyoto`s history and culture
		Kyoto is widely known as the old capital of Japan.
		Kyoto city and its suburbs were burnt down and it looked far from the beautiful capital city it used to be.
		Kyoto once was devastated after the capital relocation but it kept growing as a historical sightseeing spot.
	www.kyotoguesthouses.com /aboutkyoto.htm (1545 words)

	Osaka Prints
		Edo, Osaka and Kyoto were the major political, commercial and cultural centers in Japan in the 17th, 18th and 19th century.
		Kyoto had a population of about 400,000 citizens in the 18th century and remained an important cultural center.
		Edo was the residence of the Shogun, the military and political leader of the country, and the administrational and cultural center of Japan.
	www.artelino.com /articles/osaka_prints.asp (1073 words)

	Kyoto Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		Kyoto, with its hundreds of temples and gardens, was the imperial capital between 794 and 1868, and remains the cultural centre of Japan.
		With an astonishing 1600 Buddhist temples, 400 Shintō shrines, a trio of palaces, and dozens of gardens and museums, Kyoto is Japan's cultural treasure house.
		Holidays and festivals are celebrated with crowded gusto in Kyoto, so cherry-blossom season in April and Golden Week (late April/early May) are great times to be in the city.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/asia/japan/kyoto (317 words)

	Kyoto: Pleasure Quarters
		The pleasure quarters of Edo-period Kyoto was initially the Rokujo-Misujimachi, located in the south-central part of the city, about one kilometer north of the present Kyoto station.
		Kyoto's pleasure quarters were surrounded by a moat and a wall with a great gate at the east, making it look from the outside as much like a fortress as an entertainment area.
		The quarter was divided by one road going east and west and three north and south, initially arranged in such a way as to form six blocks.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/ealac/V3613/kyoto/recreational/pleasure.html (297 words)

	'Slumming in Kyoto'; by Randy Johnson
		Kyoto has many faces, from the delicately powdered visage of the refined geisha to the twisted grimace of the tattered rag merchant.
		Here is a part of Kyoto where life goes on in a frankly Japanese manner, outside the modern plastic wrappers and the venerated glass cases.
		Built originally by Hideyoshi in 1590, the bridge at Sanjo became the gateway to the capital; surrounded by the gay quarters of Pontocho, Gion, and Shimabara, it was the final station on the old Tokaido Road from Nihonbashi in Edo (Tokyo).
	ease.com /~randyj/fushimi.htm (1518 words)

	MI Magazine
		He was given consent and proceeded to build a walled-in quarter in the area of Nijo Yanagimachi in Kyoto, which appeared to be based on the design of the pleasure quarters of the Ming Dynasty in China.
		Shimabara of Kyoto was to become the second most famous of the pleasure quarters in Japan, and the original design of the quarters came to be used as a basis for the soon-to-be-built Yoshiwara.
		The lure of Yoshiwara, Shimabara, and the pleasure quarters to follow in later years was largely the romance, elegance and excitement that allowed men an escape from the highly-regimented society of those times.
	www.mimagazine.com.au /Issue07_July/07_CultureGeisha.htm (2788 words)

	HYATT REGENCY KYOTO > passages in kyoto > Vol.4 Hana-machi
		The district became known as Shimabara because the chaotic relocation reminded people of the Shimabara Disturbance in Kyushu.
		The beauty of Kyoto is linked closely to Hana-machi because Kyoto has a unique aesthetic sense, developed through a culture of entertaining the elite.
		Kyoto culture has recently garnered a lot of attention through films and other media.
	www.hyattregencykyoto.com /english/passagesinkyoto/no4/index.php (420 words)

	See \| Kyoto Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		The Kyoto Gosho is surrounded by the spacious Imperial Palace Park, which is planted with a huge variety of flowering trees and open fields.
		The Kyoto Gosho is surrounded by the spacious Imperial Palace Park, which is planted with a huge...
		Kyoto's station building is a striking steel and glass structure - a futuristic cathedral for the...
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/asia/japan/kyoto/see?a=browse (260 words)

	Kyoto: Recreational Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kyoto urbanites found numerous ways in which to spend their leisure time.
		The Katsura Detached Palace, a country villa located in southwest Kyoto, was one recreational getaway.
		Houses in the pleasure quarters, like the Sumiya in Kyoto's Shimabara, could be quite sumptuous and were appointed in a particularly innovative variety of the Sukiya style.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/ealac/V3613/kyoto/recreational/index.html (273 words)

	Rebellion at Shimabara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Shimabara Rebellion in 1637 marked the final brutal act in Japan's tolerance of foreign presence and led to the expulsion of all foreigners except the Dutch, who remained on Deshima Island in Nagasaki Bay.
		Beginning in 1569, the Shimabara Peninsula, which stretches southeastward from Nagasaki, and the Amakusa Islands to the south of the peninsula became home to thousands of Christian converts thanks to the missionary activities of Father Luis d'Almeida and the supportive efforts of the Christian daimyo Konishi Yukinaga.
		The governors and daimyo of Kyushu tried to make the insurrection in Shimabara and Amakusa appear to be the result of religious fervor, largely to deflect attention from their own despotic excesses and prevent their losing favor with the Tokugawa shogunate.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C14/E1404.htm (3693 words)

	OsakaPrints.com (Glossary)
		Located in Kyoto, it resembled the Shimabara fortress in Kyûshu where Christian rebels resisted the samurai of the Tokugawa government in 1637-1638.
		The Shimabara was second only to the Yoshiwara in fame and reputation and, along with the Shinmachi in Osaka, was one of the three great licensed quarters of Japan.
		The Yoshiwara, along with the Shimabara of Kyoto and the Shinmachi of Osaka, was one of the three great licensed pleasure quarters of Japan.
	www.osakaprints.com /content/information/glossary.htm (8847 words)

	Tokuriki Shin Hanga Print Willow at Shimabara
		Kyoto was the old capital and always had a flourishing art tradition and of course lively circles of woodblock print artists.
		Kyoto was spared the bombing and was pretty much intact.
		The Kyoto Shin Hanga circle was able to produce some wonderful prints both to sell to the occupation forces and to brighten their own spirits.
	www.oldgalleries.com /items/187192/item187192store.html (208 words)

	History of Japan
		Most of Kyoto city was burned to the ground, and the war spreaded throughout the nation rapidly.
		Though the battle at Kyoto was at a stalemate, numerous battles were escalated all regions in Japan.
		After the the Revolt in Shimabara in 1637, Tokugawa Iemitsu, the thrid shogun, decided to prohibited Christianity by all means.
	www2.kanawa.com /japan/history.html (4289 words)

	Shimabara, Kyoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shimabara (島原) was a courtesan's district in Kyoto until prostitution was outlawed in Japan in the middle of the twentieth century.
		In the early 17th century there was widespread male and female prostitution throughout the cities of Kyoto, Edo, and Osaka.
		To counter this, an order of Tokugawa Hidetada of the Tokugawa shogunate restricted prostitution to designated city districts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shimabara,_Kyoto (143 words)

	Immortal Geisha - History of the Geisha Part One
		After a previous relocation of the quarters to Rokujo Misujimachi in 1602, the quarters were eventually relocated to the suburb of Suzakuno in 1640-1641 and started to become known as the “Shimabara of Kyoto” (so named because the quarters apparently resembled the Shimabara fortress in Kyushu).
		At first, the Yoshiwara looked to Shimabara of Kyoto for influence in customs, manners and cultural ways.
		There were many different classes of courtesans within the pleasure quarters, but the main classes existing at Shimabara at the beginning were Tayuu and Hashi-joro.
	www.immortalgeisha.com /history_01.php (2788 words)

	The Yoshiwara
		During the early years of the 17th century, the Shogun Hideyoshi and later Tokugawa authorities in Kyoto, Edo, and Osaka passed reforms that licensed and consolidated brothels into a single area of the city which was initially remote from the center.
		In Kyoto this quarter became known as the Shimabara; in Osaka, the Shimmachi; and in Edo, the Yoshiwara.
		Although all three quarters were organized in the same basic fashion, it was the name yoshiwara that became synonymous with the concept of a "pleasure quarter." The brothels were surrounded by earthen walls, and in Kyoto, a moat three meters wide.
	www.artgallery.sbc.edu /ukiyoe/yoshiwara.html (883 words)

	Kyoto Sights and Nights
		It was in these walled-in pleasure quarters such as Kyoto’s Shimabara, Tokyo’s Yoshiwara, Osaka’s Shinmachi that the chonin (merchants) spent much of their time and money cultivating the arts.
		No, it is highly unlikely that Kyoto geiko/maiko were ever sold into Kyoto okiyas.
		Kyoto teahouse and many restaurants have what is called ichi gen san o kotowari Lit: by introduction only–no first time visitors.
	www.kyotosightsandnights.com /geisha.html (934 words)

	Shimabara Tayu, a most high class prostitute in Shimabara, Kyoto. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Since Shimabara of Kyoto, the zone where the circumference was restricted and the horehouses were gathered, had tradition and prestige, the naming of "Tayu" just meant Shimabara.
		The horehouse zones of Kyoto in the Ohei period; it was in the Ohei period that The horehouse zones of Kyoto was authorized.
		The costume of the "Tayu" in Shimabara zone was not the same as that of the present-day's counterpart around that time.
	www.iz2.or.jp /english/fukusyoku/kosode/30new.htm (475 words)

	History of Art:The Art of Asia
		Between 1185 and 1192, the increasing militarization of the provincial aristocracy and the open conflict among the great families and religious leaders caused the political power to shift from the Kansai region in the Kyoto area to Kamakura in the Kanto region.
		Although Kyoto remained the seat of imperial power and the country's cultural and artistic centre, the control of the nation was effectively handed over to the new military governor - the bakufu - and to the shogun (commanders-in-chief), who were to retain power until the 19th century.
		The districts catering for such pleasures — Yoshiwara in Edo, Shimabara in Kyoto, and Shinmachi in Osaka — were authorized by the shogunate government, and became popular centres of social activity.
	www.all-art.org /history330-4.html (3773 words)

	The Aoiya Restaurant
		I may refer to this part of the series as the Shimabara Arc but that does not mean that it is very long.
		You may also notice that the animation in the Shimabara Arc and in the episodes following it is a bit weird.
		All in all however, after the Kyoto Arc, I would definitely say that this is the best story in the series.
	www.geocities.com /aoiyarestaurant/reviews/shimbararc.html (208 words)

	GION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Gion (祇園) is a district of Kyoto, Japan, home to many geisha houses and traditional tea houses.
		Gion is the best place in Kyoto to see geisha and maiko in the streets.
		Despite the considerable decline in the number of geisha in Gion in the last one hundred years, it is still famous for the preservation of forms of traditional architecture and entertainment.
	www.japaneselifestyle.com.au /travel/kyoto_gion.htm (185 words)

	Arrival guide for Shimabara by Hostelbookers
		Shimabara straggles along the coast for more than 2km from its southerly Shin-ko ferry terminal to the main centre, Ote, just below the castle.
		Trains running south from Isahaya on the private Shimabara line stop at the main Shimabara Station, a couple of minutes' walk east of Ote, and then continue three more stops to Shin-ko Station (also known as Gai-ko Station) near the ferry port.
		Shimabara's speciality food, guzoni, consists of clam broth packed with rice-cakes, fish, pork, lotus root, tofu and egg.
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/japan/shimabara/arrival (371 words)

	Kyoto Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		Kyoto is also accessible from Osaka on Rte 1, Nishinomiya (Kōbe area) on Rte 171, from the western hills on Rte 9, or from the north (Sea of Japan) on the Shūzan Kaidō (Rte 162).
		Kyoto is a great city to explore by bicycle; it's mostly flat and there is a new bike path running the length of the Kamo-gawa.
		The bus terminal at Kyoto Station is on the north side and has three main departure bays (departure points are indicated by the letter of the bay and number of the stop within that bay).
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/asia/japan/kyoto?v=print (4997 words)

	Pictures of Amakusa Shiro Tokisada and the Underground Church of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		At the fartest left is Amakusa's official portrait, as released by the City Hall of Shimabara in 1999.
		Cutout of Amakusa Tokisada at the other side of Shimabara coastal area is made for clueless tourists fond of the Disneyesque way to have 'funny pictures'.
		Amakusa Shiro Tokisada and the rebellion of Shimabara's Catholic peasants vs Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, the horror of the Buddhist Inquisition, and the closing of Japan from the rest of the globe.
	www.geocities.com /nobukaze23/shimabara2.htm (1066 words)

	Guest Inn Kyoto - Kyoto, Japan
		Guest Inn Kyoto is an affordable hostel with 'en-suite guest rooms' in a convenient location in Kyoto city.
		It is only 6min from JR Kyoto Station by bus or taxi.
		Kyoto is not a huge place so you'll be surprised at how quickly you can get around by bike.
	www.hostelz.com /l/es/hotel/35784-Guest-Inn-Kyoto (469 words)

	Sanki inn information
		Shimabara is an old entertainment district near Nishihonganji temple in the southwest part of downtown Kyoto.
		If you are lucky, you might come across a procession of a gorgeous Tayu (courtesan) and her attendants on the street reflecting images of the past.
		We would be happy to serve you in this historical environment, and invite you to savor the atmosphere of old Kyoto.
	www.kyoto-ap.ne.jp /sanki/01e-annai.htm (271 words)

	Grandi Tenori.com » Audio of the Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		By the villainy of his satellite [Kyoto, baritone], he succeeds in stealing her during the poor blind father's absence.
		The play itself is a caricature of the scene in the garden which Osaka and Kyoto had observed earlier: An unhappy girl ("Dhia") is mistreated by her father ("Il padre", played by Kyoto) and finally saved by "Jor", the "Son of the Sun" (played by Osaka).
		Osaka and Kyoto abduct Iris to Yoshiwara, a place, which is described by the narrator as a place "without light, without the harmony of the sun".
	www.grandi-tenori.com /features/am/am_2005-06.php (5282 words)

	UC Davis Quarter Abroad: Kyoto, Japan
		We are thrilled to announce the second year of the Japanese Language and Culture Program at Kyoto Seika University.
		Our host, Kyoto Seika University, is a relatively small private university, located in the hills just outside the city.
		A short ride on the commuter train that stops near the campus will bring you into the city; a walk in the opposite direction will take you into the foothills of Mt. Hiei, the holy mountain that has guarded the city since its founding in 794.
	quarterabroad.ucdavis.edu /programs/kyoto/kyoto.htm (788 words)

	Immortal Geisha - Azuma Odori - Spring 1951
		Two palanquin-bearers with a young apprentice girl (the well-known prostitute Oguruma-Dayu’s attendant), a resident of Shimabara, Kyoto in their palanquin stop off at Shibano where they both as well as the girl take a rest.
		Nuinosuke, a samurai (warrior) in Yedo, falls in love with Ukihashi, a prostitute in Gion Kyoto while he is in Kyoto on official business, argues with one of his comrades about a little thing and kills him at last.
		Bunya dances with a court lady on the corridor of the palace while Kisen, with a waitress in Maruyama, Kyoto, where the cherry-blossoms are in full bloom, they both express their love respectively in the form of dancing.
	www.immortalgeisha.com /ao_1951s.php (738 words)

	Amazon.com: "Shimabara Rebellion": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Moreover, these were years when the bakufu could still call on the daimyo to pick up the expense of castle...
		Some authorities believe the Shimabara Rebellion drew as much momentum from economic and political unrest as from religious differences; it just happened to take place in...
		The survivors of the sieges were liquidated, and apart from the short-lived Shimabara Rebellion of 1638 no other military challenge threatened the Tokugawa for two more centuries.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Shimabara-Rebellion (582 words)

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