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THE
NIGHTLESS CITY
不夜城
OR THE “HISTORY OF
THE YOSHIWARA YŪKWAKU”
By J. E. DE BECKER
Twenty Years a Resident of Japan
“Virtuous men have said, both in poetry
and classic works, that houses of debauch,
for women of pleasure and for streetwalkers, are the worm-eaten spots of cities and towns. But these are necessary evils, and if they be forcibly abolished, men of unrighteous principles will become like ravelled thread.”
73rd section of the “Legacy of Ieyasu,” (the
first Tokugawa Shōgun.)
With Numerous Illustrations
Third Edition Revised
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Yokohama
Shanghai Bremen
MAX NÖSSLER & Co.
London
PROBSTHAIN & Co.
14 Bury Street, W.C.
Copyright,
BY THE AUTHOR.
All rights reserved.
PRINTED BY
THE BOX OF CURIOS PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO.,
YOKOHAMA. JAPAN.
Contents
PAGE.
History of the Yoshiwara Yūkwaku
1
Nihon-dzutsumi (The Dyke of Japan)
15
Mi-kaeri Yanagi (Gazing back Willow-tree)
16
Yoshiwara Jinja (Yoshiwara Shrine)
17
The “Aisome-zakura” (Cherry-tree of First Meeting)
18
The “Koma-tsunagi-matsu” (Colt tethering Pine-tree)
18
The “Ryo-jin no Ido” (Traveller’s Well)
18
Government Edict-board and Regulations at the Ōmon (Great Gate)
18
The Present Ōmon
19
Of the Reasons why going to the Yoshiwara was called “Chō ye Yuku”
21
Classes of Brothels
21
Hikite-jaya (“Introducing Tea-houses”)
28
The Jū-hachi-ken-jaya (Eighteen Tea-houses)
41
The “Amigasa-jaya” (Braided Hat Tea-houses)
42
The “Kujaku Nagaya”
42
The “Kembansho”
43
Classes of Prostitutes
44
“Kamuro” (Young Female Pages)
52
Shinzō
55
Yarite (Female Managers)
59
The “Kutsuwa”
62
The “Wakaimono” (Male Servants)
63
Hōkan and Geisha
67
The Europeanization of the Yoshiwara and the Introduction of Loochooan
Courtesans
84
Zegen (Procurers)
85
The Dress of Courtesans
94
Coiffures of the Yūjo
99
Rooms of the Yūjo
104
Tsumi-yagu_no_koto
108
Sōbana (“All round tips”)
112
Shokwai (First Meeting) and Mi-tate (Selection of Women)
112
I-tsuzuke no koto
118
O cha wo hiku to iū koto
118
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