The nightless city; or, The "history of the Yoshiwara Yūkwaku"
Transcriber’s Note
�夜城
OR THE “HISTORY OF THE YOSHIWARA YŪKWAKU�
By J. E. DE BECKER
Twenty Years a Resident of Japan
“Virtuous men have said, both in poetry and classic works, that houses of debauch, for women of pleasure and for street-walkers, are the worm-eaten spots of cities and towns. But these are necessary evils, and if they be forcibly abolished, men of unrighteous principles will become like ravelled thread.�
73rd section of the “ Legacy of Ieyasu ,� (the first Tokugawa Sh�gun.)
With Numerous Illustrations
Third Edition Revised
Yokohama
Shanghai Bremen
MAX NÖSSLER & Co.
J. E. De Becker
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Contents
List of Illustrations.
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
Government Edict-board and Regulations at the ÅŒmon.
The Present ÅŒmon.
Of the Reason Why Going to the Yoshiwara was Called “Ch� ye yuku.�
Classes of Brothels.
The “Kujaku Nagaya.�
Classes of Prostitutes.
Shinz�.
The “Kutsuwa.�
H�kan and Geisha.
The Europeanization of the Yoshiwara and the Introduction of Loochooan Courtesans.
The Dress of Courtesans.
Coiffures of the YÅ«jo.
Rooms of the YÅ«jo.
“Kuruwa-kotoba� or Yoshiwara Dialect.
Some Queer Japanese Superstitions.
Yoshiwara “Pot-pourri.�
The Examination of Licensed Women at the Hospital for Venereal Complaints.
Results of Medical Inspection.
INTRODUCTORY SONGS OF THE “DAIKOKU-MAI.�
Annals of a Year.
“Niwaka� Dancing.
Kinokuni-ya Bunzaemon.
Forms of Contracts between Brothels and Courtesans.
Result of Medical Inspection in the Shin-Yoshiwara. 1898.
Pros and Cons.
Note on “Jigoku� or Illicit Prostitutes.
APPENDIX.
The Medical Inspection of Prostitutes.
Hospital Regulations.
Medical Statistics.
Digest of the Regulations of the Yoshiwara Guild.
The Validity of Debts.
Golgatha.
Five Curious Legal Documents actually used in the Yoshiwara in 1902.
Footnotes.
