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2023/12/20 -The Yoshiwara pleasure quarters in Tokyo were devastated by the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. Photographer Kichiya looks back at the history of the area, ...

2024/2/2 -Yoshiwara was founded in the Edo period of Japan, where it quickly became a prominent district for prostitution and other sex work. The highest ranking ...

2023/11/16 -Yoshiwara, famous for its 'yukaku', developed in the 17th century as a meeting place for yujo(遊女) and flourished as a pleasure quarter over the centuries ...

3日前 -Attractive portrait of a courtesan strolling through the Shin Yoshiwara. She wears a black outer kimono patterned with a kusudama or floral ball with ...

2024/3/29 -A major new exhibition in Tokyo on the famous Yoshiwara pleasure quarters has drawn new attention to its two sides as both a place of cultural flourishing ...

2024/4/18 -Yoshiwara was a pleasure quarter licensed by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1618. It was established soon after the commencement of the Edo era (1603-1868) in ...

2023/8/4 -Yoshiwara around 1900 - this is the oldest red light district in Tokyo and was founded around 1640 ... Located in today's Taito-ku, north of Senso-ji. Not many ...

2024/3/26 -Yoshiwara in Edo is known as the pleasure quarter licensed by the Tokugawa shogunate. The brothels were built upon the sacrifice of the courtesans who were ...

2023/8/2 -This painting seems to show the main street of the Yoshiwara, the 'pleasure quarter' of the city of Edo (modern Tokyo). A courtesan is promenading with her two ...

11時間前 -Held at The University Art Museum - Tokyo University of the Arts. Over a vast area of approximately 100000 square meters, Yoshiwara in Edo, ...