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	The Yoshiwara
		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.
		The Yoshiwara in Edo, a nearly independent luxury city, is reported at one time to have encompassed over 3,000 women from all over Japan, and statistics exist that place the number of prostitutes in Edo at more than 1,750 circa 1700.
	www.artgallery.sbc.edu /ukiyoe/yoshiwara.html (883 words)

	Old Tokyo - Yoshiwara
		A serious fire in 1913, and its near-total destruction by earthquake in 1923, took the blossom off Yoshiwara's bloom.
		However, the licensed quarter remained popular until prostitution was officially abolished nationwide in 1958, thirteen years after the end of World War II.
		Yoshiwara's main street, Nakanocho, ran the entire length of the quarter.
	www.oldtokyo.com /yoshiwara.html (220 words)

	Willow looked back upon and seen at Yoshiwara Ohmon
		It is "Yoshiwara" of the amusement quarters of the nightless city where a name is noted as the place where these Shinkichi fields tell prosperity in Edo as well as the riverside fish market, the play town.
		It is to part of the present Taito Ward Senzoku 4-chome and the Senzoku 3-chome that the red-light district of Yoshiwara was spreading.
		It is "Yoshiwara Daimon" where a name is even now left in the intersection name and at the bus stop in the place where the Daimon existed.
	www.f-banchan.net /tokyo/yosiwara/yanagi_AD.htm (574 words)

	Yoshiwara (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yoshiwara (吉原) was a famous red-light district in Edo, Japan.
		Ronin, masterless samurai, were not allowed in and neither were the prostitutes let out, except once a year to see the sakura cherry blossoms and to visit dying relatives.
		The area known as Yoshiwara, near Minowa station on the Hibiya Line, is now known as Senzoku 4-chome and still retains a large number of soapland s and other facades for sexual services.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Yoshiwara.html (218 words)

	JAPAN ECHO - GENERAL ELECTION 2003 Vol. 30, No. 6 - Development of the Geisha Tradition
		Yoshiwara grew until it was destroyed in the Meireki fire of 1657, after which the licensed quarter was moved to the area behind Sensôji in Asakusa, a district that was at that time on the far outskirts of Edo.
		As this suggests, the main thrust of the prostitution laws and edicts enforced during the Edo period was not to outlaw prostitution but to put it under government control, at least with respect to Edo, one of the world’s largest cities and a magnet for outsiders of all types.
		In 1779, Yoshiwara adopted the kenban system to oversee the geisha of the area and restrict their number to no more than 100, thus ensuring that the geisha did not threaten the yûjo’s livelihood.
	www.japanecho.co.jp /sum/2003/300616.html (3467 words)

	Military Intelligence Service Research Center (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yoshiwara became involved in a near-death incident on the way to Guadalcanal.
		In Guadalcanal, Yoshiwara recalls how he slept in the hammock that was hung right over his foxhole.
		In December 1943 Yoshiwara's 173rd Language Detachment prepared to participate in the campaign on Bougainville.
	www.njahs.org /misnorcal/profiles/profile.php?id=1074 (867 words)

	METROPOLIS - Yoshiwara's House of Sin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yoshiwara's is a popular hang out for the rich, famous, popular and powerful, only those that "look" like they belong are even considered for admittance.
		Inside Yoshiwara's all forms of illicit activities take place, from the consumption of all manner of alcohol and the popular drug Maohee, to showgirls performing on elaborate stage sets to sex in the back rooms.
		The opening of Yoshiwara's is a spectacle every night, with a large gong by the front door being struck four times with the final one being administered by Sheridan himself.
	www.paper-dragon.com /2026/yoshiwaras.html (216 words)

	MI Magazine
		In time, though, Yoshiwara developed it's own customs and traditions, many being unique to Yoshiwara, and it soon became a thriving cultural centre for all manners of arts, along with producing its own lineage of popular and celebrated courtesans.
		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.
		Concerned with both the fact that geisha were threatening the carefully regulated structure of Yoshiwara, and also with the fact that they were avoiding paying any taxes whatsoever to put towards the upkeep of the Yoshiwara, he conceived of the idea to register geisha, both male and female.
	www.mimagazine.com.au /Issue07_July/07_CultureGeisha.htm (2788 words)

	Segawa Seigle, Cecilia
		By tracing the history of the Yoshiwara, the author creates a complete picture of much of life in the pleasure quarters during this time, such as the change of the courtesan’s processions from provocative to more showy and ceremonious.
		Yoshiwara was an area on the outskirts of Tokyo (Edo), where prostitution was contained and regulated in a graduated hierarchy until 1957.
		The name "Yoshiwara" came from the area itself, it means "field of rushes", a marshy place - during the years that followed, "Yoshiwara" burned down several times because of the wooden houses.
	www.angelfire.com /zine2/jungchiu/Segawa.html (1179 words)

	hmmn » Blog Archive » More slumming in Yoshiwara
		Marc’s comment became the impetus I was looking for, and so this past Saturday I set out to return to Yoshiwara, not really to discover anything I didn’t already know (the short of that is that present-day Yoshiwara is a Soapland enclave), but to sort of complete the circle as it were.
		To make a day out of it, a visit to Yoshiwara can be combined with a visit to Asakusa and Sensoji Temple, which is basically what I did.
		From Yoshiwara it’s a 10-15 minute walk to Asakusa, where perhaps more interesting than the temple and it’s tourist-packed grounds is the adjacent Rokku district (look for the big WINS betting parlor to the west of the Sensoji temple complex), which is an area worthy of it’s own post.
	www.easterwood.org /hmmn/?p=395 (887 words)

	International Wrestling Enterprise (Kokusai Puroresu)
		It was Yoshiwara who helped Matsuda to return home, and he had the opening series in January of the following year with Matsuda as the top star of the new company.
		In spite of his creative idea, Yoshiwara never had a big name Japanese star, and he was also known as someone who was too nice to be a good businessman.
		Yoshiwara would be eventually hired by New Japan as a booker but passed away in 1985 at the young age of 55.
	www.puroresu.com /iwe (652 words)

	Metropolis Fritz Lang 1927 Film Archive - Bibliography - Introduction. Brigitte Helm, Gustav Frolich, German Silent ...
		The Yoshiwara of Thea von Harbou's novel Metropolis was a nightclub run by September, a man of unidentified Asian extraction.
		The Yoshiwara of Fritz Lang's film was the embodiment of von Harbou's text, with input from the design team working on the film.
		Yoshiwara was also the scene of much activity and 'depravity' by the evil form of Maria - the transformed robot.
	www.michaelorgan.org.au /metrov1.htm (758 words)

	April 2005 Kago Tsurube Sato-no Eizame essay
		Yoshiwara was the biggest red light district in Japan, and many girls who were sold by their parent, or decided to come themselves for parent, or were kidnapped gathered there.
		Stupid rules to play at Yoshiwara and a lot of useless procedure destroy her human feelings gradually.
		Courtesans of Yoshiwara are symbolized into Yatsuhashi, and all of them are prostitutes instead of a human being.
	homepage1.nifty.com /aby/2005/yatsuhasi-aprile.htm (607 words)

	Old Tokyo - Yoshiwara Pg. 2
		The great courtesans would demonstrate their popularity, and the wealth of their patrons, with public displays of bedding.
		A bevy of Yoshiwara maidens, and their attendants, gather together in the serenity of a Japanese garden underneath processional umbrellas made of bamboo and kasa-gami (oiled paper).
		Visitors arriving by boat would approach Yoshiwara via a small canal branching from the Sumida river with a landing at Machiyama.
	www.oldtokyo.com /yoshiwara2.html (252 words)

	Yoshiwara's House of Sin/Japan
		This page is a collection, in no specific order at the moment, of links to pages and/or images which I have found over time which have some relevance either to Japan, or more specifically to Yoshiwara.
		There appears to be some dissention amongst writers, some refering to "The Yoshiwara" as if there was only one, and others refering to "A Yoshiwara" as if Yoshiwara was the name of a specific type of area.
		My (limited) research and reading leads me to believe that it is more likely that the first is historically correct (Yoshiwara as a distinct place, rather than a type of place).
	www.yoshiwara.org.uk /other/japan.php (335 words)

	Yoshiwara
		Outcasts, criminals and prostitutes, they all lived in the same quarter at the edge of the city of Edo, in Yoshiwara (now called Asakusa).
		The women were ranked according to their beauty, character, educational level and accomplishments.
		This quarter served as inspiration for the ukiyo-e artists, who conveyed the essence of the social stratification, lifestyle, or expectations and disappointments of a woman's life in the yoshiwara.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Places/Place/417966 (215 words)

	Katherine Yoshiwara
		Kathy Yoshiwara was born in Derby in the UK and grew up in Richmond, Virginia.
		In November 2003, she won the Teaching Excellence Award for the Western Region from the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC).
		She is married to Bruce Yoshiwara and benefits from his expertise in all things mathematical.
	www.piercecollege.edu /faculty/yoshibw/ka (261 words)

	Scholten Japanese Art \| Netsuke \| Inro \| Lacquer \| Screens \| Paintings \| Prints
		The Yoshiwara pleasure quarter was an irresistibly exciting place as it was a skillful purveyor of romance and a manufacturer of dreams.
		To the ordinary citizens of Edo, the courtesans of the Yoshiwara were unattainable treasures.
		The clientele of the Yoshiwara consisted of mainly daimyo (warlords) and a large contingent of rich merchants and prosperous farmers.
	www.scholten-japanese-art.com /beauty.htm (430 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).
		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.
		Concerned with both the fact that geisha were threatening the carefully regulated structure of Yoshiwara, and also with the fact that they were avoiding paying any taxes whatsoever to put towards the upkeep of the Yoshiwara, he conceived of the idea to register geisha, both male and female.
	www.immortalgeisha.com /history_01.php (2788 words)

	The Oiran
		The Yoshiwara women were vital to the imaginations both of the woodblock artists and of the kabuki drama.
		Because the ladies of the Yoshiwara and the teahouses were of such great interest to the Edo consumers, they were favorite subjects of woodblock artists, who would draw their portraits in various complimentary guises, or depict them strolling among the citizens.
		The artist seems to have combined the elements of the maiden in the story with the actor's presence and the voluptuous fashions of the Yoshiwara to create a fantasy image that is both male and female, virgin and whore.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/jshoaf/Jdolls/oiran.htm (631 words)

	Yoshiwara - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Yoshiwara (吉原) was a famous red-light district in Edo, Japan.
		Ronin, masterless samurai, were not allowed in and neither were the prostitutes let out, except once a year to see the sakura cherry blossoms and to visit dying relatives.
		The area known as Yoshiwara, near Minowa station on the Hibiya Line, is now known as Senzoku 4-chome and still retains a large number of soaplands and other facades for sexual services.
	www.music.us /education/Y/Yoshiwara.htm (369 words)

	A Night at the Yoshiwara (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Established in 1617 on the edge of the city to gather all legal brothels in an out-of-the-way spot, the Yoshiwara was relocated in 1656 following Edo's rapid expansion.
		Officially renamed Shin (New) Yoshiwara, it was now permitted to carry on night time operations, which were prohibited in the old quarter.
		Although sex was its principal commodity, the Yoshiwara wasn't just a collection of brothels filled with common prostitutes.
	www.figal-sensei.org /hist251/Text/ps3.html (257 words)

	Hiroshige - Stewart Guide to Japanese Prints
		Like the oiran they were generally sold to the Yoshiwara to relieve the poverty of their parents, or they were unfortunate orphans whose unfeeling relatives would thus dispose of, rather than be at the expense of maintaining them.
		The Yoshiwara, euphemistically termed "Flower District," the name given to the courtesan quarter of Yedo, and afterwards applied to the similar districts of Kyoto, Osaka, Nagasaki, and other towns, was founded in 1612 by Shoji Jinyemon, and was so called from its being built on the site of a rush-moor (Yoshiwara).
		The name is also said to have been derived from the town Yoshiwara, because the majority of the women in the Yedo Yoshiwara were supposed to have come from that place, but the derivation from the site of its location is generally considered the more correct of the two.
	www.hiroshige.org.uk /hiroshige/stewart/chapter_20.htm (4227 words)

	Viewing Japanese Prints: Eisen
		Nagatô is on public display during a promenade in the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter.
		It is early spring, as she walks beneath a flowering cherry tree enclosed by a bamboo fence on Yoshiwara's main street, the Naka-no-chô ("Middle Street").
		Eisen's vision of this Yoshiwara beauty exemplifies the standards of Edo style and fashion during the 1820s-30s when ornate elaboration of deportment and dress was considered the ideal for the most accomplished women of the pleasure quarters.
	optometry.berkeley.edu /~fiorillo/texts/ukiyoetexts/ukiyoe_pages/eisen3.html (703 words)

	Meurtre à Yoshiwara de TOMU UCHIDA
		Meurtre à Yoshiwara, malgré un titre assez révélateur quant au déroulement de l'intrigue, reste surprenant quant au déclenchement de sa fureur vindicative (d'une beauté formelle hallucinante).
		Aucune, sauf une prostituée de Yoshiwara aux rêves de geisha qui, ressentant la détresse du pauvre homme isolé, va le charmer pour arriver à ses fins de vengeance vis à vis des moqueries de ses camarades.
		La trame de Meurtre à Yoshiwara s'inscrit alors comme celle de la fatalité de la destinée.
	www.cineasie.com /Meurtre_Yoshiwara.html (784 words)

	Japanese Culture - Geisha
		Medieval Edo, as Tokyo was formerly known, had the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters, where kabuki actors and artists would mingle with the evolving merchant class.
		It's thought that many daughters of these formerly noble families became courtesans, with the result that quarters such as Yoshiwara and Shimabara were places of refinement and culture.
		Female geisha soon became popular enough to be able to steal clients from the courtesans, and in the case of Yoshiwara it was decided to start a kenban, or registration system, to keep them under control and force them to pay taxes.
	www.japan-zone.com /culture/geisha.shtml (1096 words)

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