In Yoshiwara’s heyday, it is said that several thousand “yujo” prostitutes worked there. The red-light district, shut down after the Anti-Prostitution Law fully took effect in 1958, is now a ...

Discover the hometown of the Yoshiwara publisher who helped shape Japan’s artistic legacy and inspired NHK’s latest period ...

Until then, she didn’t know what Yoshiwara was famous for or where it ... sex industry districts of the early postwar period. Japan’s licensed prostitution system was abolished in 1946.

9.7 x 30.6 cm. (3.8 x 12 in.) ...

We visit the Yoshiwara district, Edo's most prominent pleasure quarters. Among the lavish spenders, courtesans and apprentices, small humanoid creatures scurry about -- what could they be up to?