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    Yoshiwara (吉原) was a famous yūkaku (red-light district) in Edo, present-day Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1617, Yoshiwara was one of three licensed and...
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  • Yoshiwara is a famous yūkaku (red-light district) in Tokyo. Yoshiwara may also refer to: Yoshiwara, Shizuoka, a city in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture Yoshiwara...
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    Yoshiwara-juku (吉原宿, Yoshiwara-juku) was the fourteenth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in the present-day city of Fuji, Shizuoka...
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    yūkaku (遊廓、遊郭, lit. 'pleasure quarter'). The most famous of these were Yoshiwara in Edo (present-day Tokyo), Shinmachi in Osaka, and Shimabara in Kyoto...
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  • Yoshiwara (吉原市, Yoshiwara-shi) was a city located in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture. On November 1, 1966, Yoshiwara was merged with the city of Fuji. During...
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  • The Yoshiwara Story (Japanese: 秘録おんな蔵, Hepburn: Hiroku Onnagura) is a 1968 Japanese action film directed by Kazuo Mori. It stars Michiyo Yasuda. The film...
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  • killed in the Edo period was the 1696 Yoshiwara spree killing (吉原百人斬り, Yoshiwara hyakunin giri; lit. "Yoshiwara Hundred People Slashing"), when a wealthy...
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    of choice in which customers they took. The term oiran originated in Yoshiwara, the red light district of Edo in the 1750s, and is applied to all ranks...
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    Tatebori - Iriyamase - Fujine Gakunan Railway Line Yoshiwara - Jatco-mae - Yoshiwara-honchō - Hon-Yoshiwara - Gakunan-Harada - Hina - Gakunan-Fujioka - Sudo...
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  • 花の吉原百人斬り, Yoto monogatari: Hana no Yoshiwara hyakunin giri), also titled Yoshiwara: The Pleasure Quarter or Killing in Yoshiwara, is a 1960 Japanese jidaigeki...
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  • Yoshiwara (German:Yoshiwara, die Liebesstadt der Japaner) is a 1920 German silent film directed by Arthur Bergen and starring Lya Mara and Heinrich Schroth...
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  • Yoshiwara is a 1937 French historical drama film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Pierre Richard-Willm, Sessue Hayakawa and Michiko Tanaka. It is based...
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  • One Night in Yoshiwara (German:Eine Nacht in Yoshiwara) is a 1928 German silent film directed by Emmerich Hanus and starring Alfred Abel, Barbara Dju...
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  • Village (島田村) was merged into Yoshiwara Town.(4 towns, 17 villages) April 3, 1941 - Denbō Village (伝法村) was merged into Yoshiwara Town.(4 towns, 16 villages)...
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    Shinagawa no Tsuki (品川の月, "Moon in Shinagawa"), Yoshiwara no Hana (吉原の花, "Flowers in Yoshiwara"), and Fukagawa no Yuki (深川の雪, "Snow in Fukagawa") are three...
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    Yoshiwara-honchō Station (吉原本町駅, Yoshiwara-honchō-eki) is a railway station in the city of Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway...
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    aimed to punish writers and their publishers for writings related to the Yoshiwara and other things that were deemed to be "harmful to society" at the time...
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    (岡場所), the generic name for all unlicensed red-light districts other than Yoshiwara (later including both Shimabara and Shinmachi). In January 1946, GHQ issued...
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    Yoshiwara Station (吉原駅, Yoshiwara-eki) is an interchange railway station in the city Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan operated by the Central Japan Railway...
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  • Sendai Takao or Manji Takao, was a tayū (highest-ranking courtesan) of the Yoshiwara red light district of Edo, and one of the most famous courtesans of Japan's...
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    industry districts. In Tokyo, the area directly across the Sumida river from Yoshiwara (Tamanoi, now called Higashi Mukōjima) was a well-known aosen district;...
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    plants are Fujimatsu (Ichiriyama, Kariya, Aichi), Inabe (Inabe, Mie), Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara, Toyota, Aichi), Kariya (Showa, Kariya, Aichi). There is a development...
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    aspects, of Edo period Japan (1600–1867). Ukiyo culture developed in Yoshiwara, the licensed red-light district of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), the site of...
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    Hon-Yoshiwara Station (本吉原駅, Hon-Yoshiwara-eki) is a railway station in the city of Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator...
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  • gathering information about a demon who terrorizes the red-light districts of Yoshiwara. For the Mugen Train Arc, the opening theme is "Akeboshi" (明け星, lit. 'Morning...
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    described as the celebrities of their day, and Edo's pleasure district, Yoshiwara, is often compared to Hollywood. Men saw them as highly eroticised due...
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    2017 Accurately portraying women of different ages and occupations, from Yoshiwara courtesans to daughters of middle-class families, he allows us to sense...
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    array of new industries, many of which could be found in an area known as Yoshiwara. The district was known for being the center of Edo's developing sense...
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  • from his wounds as the demon escapes. Months later, the group is sent to Yoshiwara with Tengen, where they face off and kill the Upper Six siblings Gyutaro...
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    traditional courthouse, a Meiji Period police box and part of the former Yoshiwara red-light district. Actual film shooting takes place occasionally, and...
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