Word: yoshiwara
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lusty sister the joro have given rise at last to a political issue between the Kenseikai (Conservative Party) of Premier Wakatsuki and his erst- while† supporters, the Seiyuhonto (True Friends Party). The pub- licists of these embattled partisans, in their effort to cast blame for the Yoshiwara of Tokyo upon their opponents, have stirred the Japan- ese press to investigate the seat of responsibility for such resorts of incontinence throughout the Empire. Despatches reported last week that so many statesmen of both the Government Party and the opposition have been found to hold a direct financial interest not only...
...Yoshiwara. No sooner was Tokyo laid waste by the earthquake of 1923 than the principal architects of Japan were commissioned to rebuild the Yoshiwara -a task which was completed before any other quarter of the city had been fully rebuilt. For the new Yoshiwara a harmonious Chino-Japanese style of architecture was devised- described by the North China Daily News as the most artistic to be employed in rebuilding Tokyo...
...Yoshiwara Life. Seen from within, the life of the quarter does not present the roseate aspect visible to chance Occidental visitors. The geisha must undergo a lengthy educational process during which they are taught to dance, sing, and play the long necked unmelodious samisen. Further instruction renders them expert in all the formal minutiae of welcoming, supping with, attending, and bidding good-bye to their clients...
Against this possibility of a secure old age the occupational diseases of the geisha seriously militate. Despite the fact that the girls are examined every two weeks and are sent when necessary to the splendidly equipped Yoshiwara Hospital the toll of rinbyo, baidoku and raibyo is as heavy as in the Occident...
Saluted by beaming policemen, chattering lightheartedly, fluttering in their bright kimonas like iridescent butterflies, 2,000 geisha girls flocked last week to the spacious park of their famed Yoshiwara quarter in Tokyo...