Word: nagebushi
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...pimps, wrestlers, inquisitive artists and, above all, every class and kind of girl. Japan now experienced a split between country virtues and big-city decadence, and its conservatives bewailed the fact, especially when the rot seemed to have invaded the Imperial Palace. "His Highness (the Emperor) sings songs called nagebushi," complained one lord in 1718. "These are licentious tunes. It is extremely improper that a descendant of the revered Sun Goddess should do such things . . . which not even a right-thinking shopkeeper would...
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