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    Tobita Shinchi (redirect from 飛田遊廓)
    Tobita Shinchi (飛田新地), also known as Tobita Yūkaku (飛田遊廓), is the largest of the brothel districts in Osaka, and also the largest in western Japan. It...
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    Yūkaku (遊廓) were legal red-light districts in Japanese history, where both brothels and prostitutes - known collectively as yūjo (遊女, lit. "woman of pleasure")...
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  • Shinmachi (新町) was a yūkaku (遊廓、遊郭, pleasure quarter, courtesan's district) in Osaka, built between 1615 and 1623, and operating until its destruction...
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    largest machiya in Kyoto is Sumiya in Shimabara, the traditional yūkaku (遊廓/遊郭, lit. 'pleasure quarter') of Kyoto. Minka Kura (storehouse) Terraced houses...
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    by geisha.[citation needed] Walled-in pleasure quarters known as yūkaku (遊廓/遊郭) were built in the 16th century, with the shogunate designating prostitution...
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    of laws restricting brothels to bounded pleasure quarters known as yūkaku (遊廓/遊郭, lit. 'playground') in roughly 1600, sometimes restricting brothels to...
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    prostitution to certain areas on the outskirts of cities, known as yūkaku (遊廓、遊郭, lit. 'pleasure quarter'). The most famous of these were Yoshiwara in Edo...
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    entertainment districts (aosen). The precursor of akasen districts were yūkaku (遊廓), legal red-light districts in Japan where both brothels and sex workers (known...
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  • indignities from the military police. 1975-05-10 Red Light Tobita Brothel 赤線飛田遊廓 Akasen Tobita Yukaku Shōgorō Nishimura Yūko Katagiri Mariko Hoshi Setsuko...
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  • preceded by the registered red-light districts of Japan, known as yūkaku (遊廓 [ja]/遊郭). Three yūkaku were established in Japan in the early 1600s: Shimabara...
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    throughout the cities. Shimbara was one of the three districts known as yūkaku (遊廓、遊郭, pleasure quarter) established in the major cities of Japan by the Tokugawa...
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  • demolished. A predecessor brothel to the area, called Budo Yugak (부도 유곽; 敷島遊廓) was founded in 1902 in Sinheung-dong [ko], Jung District. 17 restaurants...
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  • genre. Another text published in the early period was Hijiri no Yūkaku (聖遊廓, "The Holy Man's Brothel", 1757): Buddha, Confucius, and Laozi all go to a...
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  • 청루소일(靑樓消日) Waiting for drinks being served at a hongru 홍루대주 (紅樓待酒) Holding a drinking party 주사거배 (酒肆擧盃) Who will be the hero at the brothel? 유곽쟁웅 (遊廓爭雄)...
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