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No.87 Willow looked back upon and seen at Yoshiwara Ohmon
(It is the Tokyo guide to introduce by the image and the column).
"Yoshiwara" is the only in Edo red-light district which was authorized
by the Shogunate. Originally, it was named "Yoshihara (stop "WARA")"
because it was the place where Yoshi and the cogon flourish in the one
which was established in 1617 by Nihonbashi Fukiya city's (現 : near Nihonbashi
Ningyo-cho) being able to be given land. After that, it moved to Asakusa
Senzoku village Nihonzutsumi where the rice paddy spreads in 1656. Correctly,
the former is called old Yoshiwara and latter is called Shinkichi fields.
It is "Yoshiwara" of the amusement quarters of the nightless
city where a name is noted as the place where these Shinkichi fields tell
prosperity in Edo as well as the riverside fish market, the play town.
It continued until 1958.
It is to part of the present Taito Ward Senzoku 4-chome and the Senzoku
3-chome that the red-light district of Yoshiwara was spreading. It turned
a trench around Shinkichi fields and it supposed only that the doorway
is a place of one piece of Daimon. It is "Yoshiwara Daimon" where
a name is even now left in the intersection name and at the bus stop in
the place where the Daimon existed.
There were more men in the population in Edo, the red-light district was
made a necessary evil and it was yes with the house of ill fame but was
extremely bustling. Always, and the female-impersonator says that it sees
the program of the kabuki and the harlot appears as much as the saying.
Because it dealt with a noble warrior in the Shogunate, in the harlot,
the one which has considerable knowledge and culture, too, got off and
had the hint of the tea ceremony to the shamisen and the koto, the Japanese
dance. The life of the however, gorgeousness other side, OBJ DO, inferior
harlot, too It was introduced and it was about the one to say that it doesn't
get a satisfactory meal, too, in the giving and that there are few visitors
by the daughters in the farm village which a body was sold to and to be
punished, too, because the great part of the harlot was poor. It says that
it was buried as if to be thrown into Jokan temple (Arakawa Ward) when
the death age, too, is young and dies.
The willow of the reward
The signboard of Taito Ward school board
It says that this name pricked "the reward willow" from the place where the return play visitor made reluctance becoming composed, looking back to the red-light district in the vicinity of this willow while having a drawn thought. It becomes the subject of a lot of purple willows and it stands to the signboard of Taito Ward school board. Formerly, it was in the bank of Yamaya Horiwaki, but it is moved to the present location with land readjustsment, it sets over the number charge by the earthquake disaster and the war damage and it is replaced. However, because the signboard of the school board has become a standing "sight to see" about "the red-light district", too, if the times pass, when passing in the manner and custom town and in 3-400 in present Shinjuku Kabuki-cho and so on, as the prosperity of former Tokyo, will it be introduced with the textbook?
It links to "Edo Yoshiwara book".
Which becomes the town which neon flashes across when becoming at night
present Yoshiwara
The taxi is waiting by the visitor in front of the shop.
By the red line going out of business which accompanies the enforcement of the Anti-Prostitution Law in 1958, Yoshiwara closes a curtain. After that, Turkish bath which the origin red line supplier manages opens and a soap land town like the present is formed.
This series is updated. It looks forward to the next time OBJ DO.