Yoshiwara Then & Now: Old Tokyo’s Tragic Pleasure District
00:00 Intro
01:18 How Yoshiwara Began
02:07 Yoshiwara Map & Structure
03:08 Ukiyo: The Floating World
03:55 Customer Experience
04:25 Life of Yoshiwara Courtesans
05:34 Nagekomidera (Throw-Away Temple)
06:13 Great Kanto Earthquake
07:30 Yoshiwara Today
09:46 Thoughts & Reflection
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Recommended Further Reading:
Longstreet & Longstreet. Geishas and the Floating World: Inside Tokyo’s Pleasure District
https://www.google.co.jp/books/edition/Geishas_and_the_Floating_World/IkBSyAEACAAJ?hl=en
Seigle, Cecilia Segawa. The Glittering World of the Japanese Courtesan.
https://www.google.co.jp/books/edition/Yoshiwara/4T-kJB8vKvcC?hl=en&gbpv=0
Weisenfeld, Gennifer. Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923
https://apjjf.org/2015/13/6/Gennifer-Weisenfeld/4270.html
Featured Artwork:
Forty-eight tactics of Love, Keisai Eisen.
https://en.600dpi.net/keisai-eisen-0002314/
Yoshiwara Kshisaki no zu by Katsushika i.jpg
https://reseeders.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/localimages/a-3EYoshiwara_K-25C5-258Dshisaki_no_zu_by_Katsushika_-25C5-258Ci.jpg
Courtesans under Cherry Trees in Front of the Daikokuya, Kitagawa Utamaro.
https://en.600dpi.net/kitagawa-utamaro-0002265/
Tea-Whisk Seller, Fire Wood Seller, Shrine Festival Performer, Kitagawa Utamaro.
https://en.600dpi.net/kitagawa-utamaro-0001958/
Edo Hakkei (Eight Sights of Edo) : Night rain at Yoshiwara, Keisai Eisen.
https://en.600dpi.net/keisai-eisen-0002337/
Collection of Celebrated Places of the Eastern Capital): Cherry blossoms viewers at night in the gay quarters at Shin Yosliiwara, Keisai Eisen.
https://en.600dpi.net/keisai-eisen-0002346/
6 O’clock at Night in Yoshiwara, Otake Kokkan.
https://reseeders.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/localimages/a-3E6_O-2527clock_at_Night_in_Yoshiwara_-28Harimise-29.jpg
Dawn Inside the Yoshiwara, Utagawa Hiroshige.
https://en.600dpi.net/utagawa-hiroshige-0002584/
The “Looking-Back” Willow on the Nihonzutsumi Embankment, Shin Yoshiwara, Honolulu Museum of Art.
https://reseeders.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/localimages/a-3EShin_Yoshiwara_-28Shin_yoshiwara_nihonzutsumi_mikaeri_yanagi-29-2C_-28Edo_meisho-29.jpg
The Buddhist Church Reflecting the Setting Sun, Takahashi Shtei.
https://en.600dpi.net/takahashi-shotei-0004331/
Someyama of Matsubaya with Two Attendants, Kitagawa Utamaro
https://en.600dpi.net/kitagawa-utamaro-0000820/
Niwaka Festival Performers in a Yoshiwara Teahouse, Kitagawa Utamaro
https://en.600dpi.net/kitagawa-utamaro-0002165/
Yosooi of the Matsubaya, Kitagawa Utamaro
https://en.600dpi.net/kitagawa-utamaro-0002458/
Seyama of the Matsubaya, kamuro Iroka and Yukari, Kitagawa Utamaro.
https://en.600dpi.net/kitagawa-utamaro-0001979/
Hokusai Oiran and Komuro
https://reseeders.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/localimages/a-3EHokusai_Oiran_and_Kamuro.jpg
New Year in the Yoshiwara, Kitagawa Utamaro.
https://en.600dpi.net/kitagawa-utamaro-0001908/
Cheoneunsa Temple at Mount Jiri, Korea, Hasui Kawase
https://en.600dpi.net/hasui-kawase-0003710/
Featured Photos (Public Domain):
Japanese Yoshiwara-girls behind bars, 1931 or earlier.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/3774887018/
Oiran Dochu Procession in SUSUKINO 2018, MIKI Yoshihito.
https://reseeders.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/localimages/a-3EOiran_Dochu_Procession_in_SUSUKINO_2018._-2842959289385-29.jpg
Map of the Yoshiwara district of Tokyo in 1879, Japan Gazette
https://reseeders.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/localimages/a-3EImage_taken_from_page_14_of_-2527Notes_on_the_history_of_the_Yoshiwara_of_Yedo-2527_-2811225993223-29.jpg
Yoshiwara district of Tokyo courtesans on display.
https://reseeders.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/localimages/a-3E82b_Yoshiwara_Girls.jpg
Tracks and platforms of Ryogokubashi station (current Ryogoku station) damaged by Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923.
https://reseeders.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/localimages/a-3ERyogoku_station_after_great_Kanto_earthquake.jpg
Great Kanto earthquake evacuees
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Kanto_earthquake_evacuees.JPG
Yurakucho after Great Kanto earthquake
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Kanto_earthquake_evacuees.JPG
1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, Kagawa Toyohiko.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KAGAWA_Toyohiko_1923_Great_Kanto_earthquake.JPG
Music: Epidemic Sound
