The “Sanya-uma.�
Guests going to the Yoshiwara (From an old print.)
| From Nihon-bashi to the gate of the Yoshiwara. Ordinary charge. | 200 mon (20 sen) |
| Ditto, with a caparisoned white horse, and two footmen singing the “Komuro-bushi� song. | 348 mon (34 sen 8 rin) |
| From Iida-machi to the gate of the Yoshiwara. Ordinary charge. | 200 mon (20 sen) |
| Ditto, with a caparisoned white horse, and two footmen singing the “Komuro-bushi� song. | 348 mon (34 sen 8 rin) |
| From the Asakusa gate to the gate of the Yoshiwara. Ordinary charge. | 132 mon (13 sen 2 rin) |
| Ditto, with a caparisoned white horse, and two footmen singing the “Komuro-bushi� song. | 248 mon (24 sen 8 rin) |
The above proves the taste of the period for white horses, and besides this there was a song in vogue in the Meireki era (1655–1657) which described the graceful appearance of a man of rank visiting the Yoshiwara on the back of a white steed.
By�-chū oyobi In-shoku no koto.
(Of the sickness of prostitutes and of their meals.)
Generally speaking, every yūjo possesses a room in which she lives irrespective of the fact of whether she has visits from guests or otherwise; but, in some houses, when a prostitute falls sick, she is not allowed to remain in her room, and is sent down to the �-beya (large apartment) for treatment: this room is known among the inmates of the brothel as “yosé-ba� (place of gathering).
In a courtesan’s apartment is to be found every cooking utensil necessary in the preparation of a meal, and therefore many of the girls take their meal in their own room, merely getting boiled rice up from the kitchen and preparing other articles themselves.