The sexual life of Japan 1905: being an exhaustive study of the nightless city Free PDF Ebook









Book Published: 1905

Author: De Becker, J. E

An excerpt from the author:" Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere," and notwithstanding the strenuous efforts which have been made in all countries and ages to eradicate prostitution, it still exists rampant and invincible. History demonstrates the sad truth that all human efforts have been — and probably will ever be— unequal to the task of stamping out the social evil from our midst, and we are therefore forced to recognize that the most we can hope to achieve in the direction of ameliorating its consequences are to regulate and control its worst features. Many and earnest have been the vain attempts of European reformers to grapple with the evil, but their efforts have invariably ended in disappointment. The Church has thundered and anathematized, the secular authorities have enacted severe and even cruel laws, but the courtesan still survives and will doubtless survive and flourish until the waters of Time have engulfed the World. Japan has not stood still among the nations in her endeavor to solve the problem of prostitution, and the present system of legal control is to all intents and purposes development of that inaugurated well-nigh three centuries agoContent of the bookHistory of the Yosliiwara Yukwaku 1Nilion-dzutsumi ( 7%e Dyke of Japan) 15Mi-kaeri Yanagi [Oazing back WUlow-tree) 16Yosliiwara Jiuja ( Yoahiwara Shrine) 17The "Aisome-zakura " {Chen-y-tree of First Meeting) 18The " Koma-tsunagi-matsu " {Colt tethering Pine-tree) 18The " Ryojin no Ido " {Traveller's Well) 18Government Edictboard and Regulations at the Omen (Great Gate) . . 18The Present Omon 19»Of the Reasons why going to the Yosliiwara was called " Oho veYukn " ". 21Classes of Brothels 21Hikite-Jaya (" Introducing Tea-houses"') 28The Ju-Hachi-ken-Jaya (^Eighteen Tea-houses) 41The " Amigasa-Jaya " {Braided Hat Tea-houses) 42The " Knjaku Nagaya " 42Tlie " Kembanslio ' ' 43Classes of Prostitutes 44" Kamuro " ( Young Female Pages) 52Shiuzo 55Yarite (Female Managers) 59Tlie " Kutsuwa " 62Tlie " Wakaimono " (Male Servants) 63Hokan and Geisha 67The Europeanization of the Yosliiwara and the Introduction of Loo-phooan Courtesans 84Zegen ( Procurers) 85The Dress of Courtesans 94Coiffures of the Yujo 99Rooms of the Yujo 104Tsumi-yagu no koto 108Sobana {"Ml round tips ") 112Shokwai (First Meeting) and Mi-tate (Selection of Women) 112I-tsuznke no koto 118O cha wo hiku to iu koto 118Shiki-zome no soba-burumai no koto 119Shashin-mitate-cho {Photograph Albums for Facilitating the Selectionof Women) 121