Prostitutes of Japan XIX century

In the land of the Rising Sun since ancient times in many existed professional courtesans, geishas, and prostitutes-the oiran, with which relations were built on a purely commercial basis: "pay money, get sex."

Japan was "opened" to the world in the 1850s, but and then for many decades, the future economic superpower remained very trouble country. Few remember now that the "export of prostitution" during the second half of the nineteenth century was an important source of foreign exchange for the Japanese budget: around 1900, when the business peaked, remittances from working abroad prostitutes for Japanese women was the country's third largest source of foreign exchange earnings.

Japanese ladies of easy virtue, known as the "karayuki-San" (meaning "abroad"), worked throughout Asia, from Sydney to Vladivostok, from Shanghai to Singapore. They usually worked in the brothels, which were owned by Japanese, and often did not know the local languages. Common, by the way, were these Japanese institutions in the Russian Far East (himself Anton Pavlovich Chekhov visited one of them and highly appreciated the quality of sexual service offered by the Japanese specialist).

1. 1870-1880-E. Oiran

2. 1870. Cayo was the most famous Maiko (apprentice geisha) in the early Meiji period in the Kyoto area

3. 1880. The prostitute in your free day

4. 1890-1895. Brothel No. 9 in Yokohama

5. 1890-1895. Brothel No. 9 in Yokohama

6. 1890-1900. Cell with prostitutes

7. 1890-1900. Prostitutes behind bars in an unknown brothel

8. 1890. Cell with prostitutes — the lowest level of the system of brothels

9. 1890. A prostitute of a brothel, No. 9, Tokyo

10. 1890. Prostitutes of a brothel, No. 9

11. 1890. Prostitutes of a brothel # 9 Kakegawa

12. 1890. Six prostitutes on call waiting for customers

13. 1892-1895. Prostitutes of a Brothel # 9 Kanagawa

14. 1892-1895. Prostitutes of the brothel nectarine No. 9 in the town of Kanagawa Prefecture near the entrance to the school

15. 1895-1915. Prostitutes behind bars in an unknown brothel

16. 1895. A brothel. "Cherry blossom" in Yokohama

17. 1895. Prostitutes of a brothel, No. 9, Tokyo

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22. 1897. Prostitutes have the day off. Quarter isiwara

23. 1899. Prostitutes waiting for customers

24. 1899. The picture of the hooker from the album the brothel

25. 1900-05. The parade of the oiran

26. 1900-1915 Oiran

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32. 1905. Tea ceremony in the style of Genroku

33. 1906. About-Sana San, a geisha district, Yoshi-Cho in Tokyo

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36. 1908. The famous geisha from Tokyo O-Hana-San in a dress for visits

37. 1908. Maiko (the apprentice geisha)

38. 1908. Dance festival of the geisha in Shinbashi

39. 1909. The oiran

40. 1909. The procession of the oiran in the Shimabara (Kyoto)

41. 1909. Six Maiko

42. 1910. Eight Maiko show their darari-no-Obi

43. 1910. Geisha of Kamogawa

44. 1910. Maiko (the apprentice geisha)

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46. 1913. A geisha from the Shinbashi Otomaru

47. The oiran

48. Prostitutes of a brothel # 9 Kanagawa in the output

49. Prostitutes of a brothel, No. 9

50. Prostitutes of a brothel No. 9 in Yokohama

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52. The most famous oiran