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Over 500 beautiful photographs and postcards, mostly of between 1900 and 1940, take you back to Japan’s now-extinct licensed pleasure districts. You will keep opening up this book again and again. A beauty!
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Prostitution
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# 70606-0003 Yokohama 1890s • Nectarine No. 9 Brothel Meiji • Buildings • Prostitution Kimbei Kusakabe • Albumen Print • Kimbei Kusakabe |
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# 70219-0022 Tokyo 1890s • Prostitutes in Cage Meiji • Prostitution • Women Unknown • Albumen Print • Unknown |
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# 70208-0016 Tokyo 1890s • Yoshiwara Brothel Meiji • Buildings • Prostitution Unknown • Albumen Print • Unknown |
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# 70314-0026 Kobe 1910s • Fukuhara Brothels Meiji • City Views • Prostitution Unknown • Postcard • Ueda |
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# 70621-0002 Tokyo 1890s • Yoshiwara Brothels Meiji • City Views • Prostitution Unknown • Albumen Print • Unknown |
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# 70621-0013 Tokyo 1900s • Yoshiwara Omon Meiji • City Views • Prostitution Unknown • Postcard • Tomboya |
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# 70710-0006 Tokyo 1910s • Yoshiwara Prostitutes Meiji • Prostitution • Women Unknown • Postcard • Marukiya |
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# 70710-0007 Tokyo 1910s • Yoshiwara Prostitutes Meiji • Prostitution • Women Unknown • Postcard • Marukiya |
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# 70808-0001 Nagasaki 1910s • Maruyama Brothels Meiji • City Views • Prostitution Unknown • Postcard • Unknown |
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# 70820-0007 Nagasaki 1890s • Maruyama Brothels Meiji • City Views • Prostitution Unknown • Albumen Print • Unknown |
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# 70130-0006 Tokyo 1910s • Yoshiwara Prostitutes Taisho • Prostitution • Women Unknown • Postcard • Ueda |
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# 80115-0023 Osaka 1880s • Matsushima Brothels Meiji • City Views • Prostitution Unknown • Albumen Print • Unknown |
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# 70510-0002 Kyoto 1920s • Shimabara Tayuu Taisho, Showa • Prostitution • Women Unknown • Postcard • Seikyokudo |
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# 71203-0014 Osaka 1920s • Tobita Red Light District Taisho • Prostitution • City Views Unknown • Postcard • Unknown |
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