ISBN:
9784805310274
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (225 p.)
Series Statement:
Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature
Parallel Title:
Print version Yoshiwara : Geishas, Courtesans, and the Pleasure Quarters of Old Tokyo
DDC:
306.74/20952135
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
For centuries, Yoshiwara was the famed pleasure center of Tokyo. An erotic world unmatched by the West was created by beautiful courtesans, geishas, dancers, actors and artists. To this "floating world" came the hedonists and the sensual pleasure hunters of old Japan. A hotbed of art and creativity, it also saw the enslavement of countless women, sold or driven into the sex trade. Yoshiwara traces the rise and fall of this city within a city, a sanctioned preserve of teahouses and brothels that was not abolished until 1958, sketching a vivid portrait of social and sexual mores in Jap
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword; Japanese Events Concerning the Yoshiwara; Japan from the Yoshiwara Period On; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Perry Opening the World of the Yoshiwara; 2 The Pleasure City; 3 Two Journeys to Edo; 4 The Brothels and Other Teahouses; 5 Geishas and Courtesans; 6 The Erotic Talents; 7 The Many Characters of the Floating World; 8 Fashions of the Yoshiwara Women; 9 Stories of Geishas and Courtesans; 10 Two Famous Geishas; 11 The Life of Bondage; 12 The Foreigner Looks at the "Soiled Doves"; 13 Their Faith and Ritual; 14 The Role Of Men and Women; 15 The Literature and Arts of Love
Description / Table of Contents:
16 The End of the Yoshiwara
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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