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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Santō Kyōden (section Kyōden and the Yoshiwara)
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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Toyota Auto Body (redirect from Yoshiwara plant)
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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