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Yoshiwara (吉原) was a
famous yūkaku (red-light district) in Edo, present-day Tokyo, ****an.
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, ****uoka, a city in
eastern ****uoka
Prefecture Yoshiwara...
- 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 ****anese jidaigeki...
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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...
- 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 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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Yoshiwara (吉原市,
Yoshiwara-shi) was a city
located in
eastern ****uoka Prefecture. On
November 1, 1966,
Yoshiwara was
merged with the city of Fuji. During...
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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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Yoshiwara Story (****anese: 秘録おんな蔵, Hepburn:
Hiroku Onnagura) is a 1968 ****anese
action film
directed by
Kazuo Mori. It
stars Michiyo Yasuda. The film...
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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...
