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THE
NIGHTLESS CITY
�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