Shimabara (嶋原) (often simplified to 島原, sometimes styled 嶌原), established in 1640, was the designated red light district (yūkaku) in Kyoto. Following the...
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policies Shimabara, Kyoto, an entertainment quarter in Kyoto, Japan This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Shimabara. If an internal...
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Hanamachi (redirect from Kyoto hanamachi)
(遊廓 [ja]/遊郭). Three yūkaku were established in Japan in the early 1600s: Shimabara in Kyoto in 1640, Shinmachi in Osaka between 1624 and 1644, and Yoshiwara in...
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approximately 40 tayū working in Kyoto in the Shimabara district. Tayū have survived into the modern day in Shimabara, Kyoto, having been allowed to continue...
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prostitution was outlawed in Japan in 1957. However, the tayū remaining in Kyoto's Shimabara district were allowed to continue practising the cultural and performing...
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Abe Takao II Red-light districts Akasen Jūsō Kabukichō, Tokyo Nakasu Shimabara, Kyoto Shinmachi Susukino Tobita Shinchi Yoshiwara Yūkaku Types of prostitutes...
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Sengoku period (section Kansai region and Kyoto)
ranging from 1568, the date of Oda Nobunaga's march on Kyoto, to the suppression of the Shimabara Rebellion in 1638, deep into what is traditionally considered...
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countries are legal. Fukuoka Nakasu Gifu Kanazuen Hokkaidō Susukino Kyoto Shimabara (defunct) Osaka Imasato Shinchi Jūsō Kujo Matsushima Shinchi Shinchi...
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The Beppu-Shimabara graben (別府‐島原地溝帯, Beppu-Shimabara Chikōtai) is a geological formation that runs across the middle of Kyushu, Japan, from Beppu Bay...
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