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Yoshiwara|jɒʃɪˈwɑːrə|
Also yoshiwara.
In Japan, an area (esp. one in Tokyo) where brothels were officially recognized. Freq. attrib.
Official recognition was withdrawn in May 1958.
1870Fortn. Rev. Aug. 154 At Yokohama, indeed, and at the other open ports, the women of the Yoshiwara are loud in their invitations to visitors. 1877A. C. Maclay Let. 25 Nov. in Budget of Lett. from Japan (1886) xix. 342 That strange institution of the feudal Government of Japan known as the Yoshiwara system..This was a system of legalized prostitution..under government patronage. 1896Kipling Seven Seas 70 And tell the Yoshiwara girls to burn a stick for him. 1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 27 Apr. 3/4 The fire..destroyed the new yoshiwara at Tokyo, sweeping away 6555 houses. 1944H. G. Wells '42 to '44 102 The child may be apprenticed to Fagin's academy, it may be sold into the Yoshiwara. 1966New Statesman 2 Dec. 840/1 A short look at A Harlot's Progress, and then—if not at a yoshiwara house by a Japanese master of the Floating World—at Botticelli's Venus. 1978Country Life 24 Aug. 500/2 The brothels in the red light district of Edo, the Yoshiwara. |