TokyoBound on this link. Enjoy!<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Flower<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n It is rare to find words for a beautiful woman that do not include allusions to flowers. Albeit not as beautiful as a\u00a0keisei<\/em>*<\/strong>,<\/em> even a\u00a0meshimori<\/em> can turn a\u00a0jinya.<\/em> ** <\/strong>One should know that there are specific manners for how to be with an\u00a0oiran<\/em>*** <\/strong>of the\u00a0tayu<\/em>profession. Nowadays, young men know only of prostitutes, but not about a\u00a0keisei<\/em> of Yoshiwara. Nothing remains of that culture, except for what is secretly kept in Shimabara**** <\/strong>of Kyoto.<\/span><\/p>\n *<\/strong>Literally meaning \u201ca castle turner,\u201d\u00a0keisei<\/em> (\u50be\u57ce) refers to a woman so glamorous that she can ruin a castle by captivating its lord with her beauty.<\/span><\/p>\n **<\/strong>Meshimori<\/em> (\u98ef\u76db) were hired by inns as maids and often engaged in prostitution. The quote indicates that a beautiful\u00a0meshimori<\/em> can bankrupt at least a\u00a0jinya<\/em>, an inn designated for feudal lords, if not a castle like a\u00a0keisei<\/em> can.<\/span><\/p>\n ***<\/strong>High-ranking courtesans of Yoshiwara were called oiran (\u82b1\u9b41).<\/span><\/p>\n ****<\/strong>The three major licensed pleasure districts in the Edo period were\u00a0Shimabara in Kyoto, Shinmachi in Osaka, and Yoshiwara in Edo (present-day Tokyo).<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u82b1 (hana)<\/span><\/p>\n \u82b1\u306e\u9854\u3001\u89e3\u8a9e\u306e\u82b1\u3001\u6b1d\u67f3\u6298\u82b1\u3002\u7f8e\u4eba\u306e\u5f62\u5bb9\u82b1\u306b\u975e\u3056\u308b\u3082\u306e\u7a00\u306a\u308a\u3002\u300e\u98ef\u76db\u3082\u9663\u5c4b\u4f4d\u306f\u50be\u3051\u308b\u300f\u50be\u57ce\u3056\u308b\u3082\u592a\u592b\u8077\u306e\u82b1\u9b41\u306a\u308b\u3082\u306e\u306b\u6b0a\u5f0f\u3042\u308a\u3084\u3092\u77e5\u308b\u3079\u3057\u3002\u73fe\u4ee3\u306e\u9752\u5e74\u3001\u58f2\u7b11\u5a66\u3092\u77e5\u308a\u3066\u3088\u3057\u308f\u3089\u306e\u50be\u57ce\u3092\u77e5\u3089\u305a\u3002\u4eca\u304d\u3087\u3046\u3068\u306e\u5cf6\u539f\u306b\u5bc6\u304b\u306b\u5176\u306e\u5f62\u9ab8\u3092\u7559\u3080\u308b\u306e\u307f\u3002<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Please visit Mr\u00a0Osada Steve\u2019s website to read the original article in English at TokyoBound on this link. Enjoy! Flower It is \n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[103,78,91,28,110],"class_list":["post-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articulos","tag-art","tag-cultura-japonesa","tag-imagenes-del-infierno","tag-ito-seiyu","tag-ukiyo-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Flor101.jpg\" "\\"Flor101\\"")
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