Yoshiwara

Download or read book Yoshiwara written by Cecilia Segawa Seigle and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-03-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on both historical and literary sources, examines life in the pleasure houses of Japan during the Edo period from the early 1600s to 1868. Among the topics are the origins, illegal competitors, the cost of a visit, the treatment of the courtesans, traditions and protocols, Yoshiwara arts, th

Download or read book YOSHIWARA written by Donald G. Moore and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-03-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoshiwara, the centuries-old pleasure quarter in Tokyo, is the backdrop for a story set in Japan on the eve of the Second World War, where an American journalist, recruited by the Office of Naval Intelligence becomes entangled in a web of espionage and murder that includes; a woman sold to a bordello in Yoshiwara, who falls in love with the journalist; a female serial killer, who stalks and kills patrons of Yoshiwara; a husband and wife, members of Japan's outcast society, the Burakumin, who agree to work for ONI in exchange for safe passage out of Japan; and an officer in the Japanese secret police, the Kempei Tai, who suspects that the journalist and the Burakumin couple are spies.

Download or read book Yoshiwara written by Stephen Longstreet and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lust will not keep…Something must be done about it."--inscription at the entrance to Yoshiwara For over a hundred years the Western world has heard whispers of the pleasure city, Yoshiwara, set behind its walls in the city of Edo itself, which is today called Tokyo. Here was an eastern red light district, the place for the hedonists, the woman-seekers, the sensual plasure-hunters of old Japan. There, behind moated walls, an erotic Japanese 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. Many myths and legends encircled the secrets of the Yoshiwara, and still do. In time other Japanese cities tried to copy the original, sometimes even calling their district for geishas and courtesans and pretty waitress girls a Yoshiwara. Stephen and Ethel Longstreet use prints and fascinating original sources to trace 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, no-holds-bared portrait of social and sexual mores in Japan's capital.

Download or read book The nightless city; or, The "history of the Yoshiwara Yūkwaku" written by J. E. De Becker and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The nightless city; or, The "history of the Yoshiwara Yūkwaku"" by J. E. De Becker. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book Kill Me in Yoshiwara written by Earl Norman and published by Fiction Hunter Press. This book was released on 2020-11-22 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burns Bannion is back on another assignment: the fleshpots of YOSHIWARA—the age-old home of prostitution in the middle of Tokyo. . . The young and voluptuous Hiroko puts Bannion on the tracks of her older sister, who has been savagely beaten to death by Bannion's own weapon— KARATE, the deadly method of Japanese fighting in which the human hand can be as lethal as a knife blade. Before he's finished in YOSHIWARA, Bannion has more corpses lying around than you'd care to count. . .

Download or read book A Yoshiwara Episode. - written by James Murdoch and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Modeling, Functions, and Graphs written by Katherine Franklin and published by Brooks/Cole. This book was released on 1991 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While maintaining its focus on functions and graphs this book gives the adequately prepared algebra student the right start and flexible goals.