Drawing on both historical and literary sources, examines life in the pleasure houses of Japan during the Edo period from the early 1600s to 1868. Among the top

Yoshiwara, the centuries-old pleasure quarter in Tokyo, is the backdrop for a story set in Japan on the eve of the Second World War, where an American journalis

"Lust will not keep…Something must be done about it."--inscription at the entrance to Yoshiwara For over a hundred years the Western world has heard whispers

"The nightless city; or, The "history of the Yoshiwara Yūkwaku"" by J. E. De Becker. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that

Burns Bannion is back on another assignment: the fleshpots of YOSHIWARA—the age-old home of prostitution in the middle of Tokyo. . . The young and voluptuous