Yoshiwara: Geishas, Courtesans & the Pleasure Quarters of Old Tokyo (Classics of Japanese Literature) by Ethel Longstreet, Stephen Longstreet

Yoshiwara: Geishas, Courtesans & the Pleasure Quarters of Old Tokyo (Classics of Japanese Literature)

Ethel Longstreet, Stephen Longstreet

224 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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"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 ...

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