Otsu Shibayacho - Otsu Shibayacho

...After the Tokugawa clan came to power in Edo, the construction of the Keisei-cho district was approved in 1617, and the system of congregated prostitution was made even clearer. In 1657 (Meireki 3), the district was moved to Shin Yoshiwara in Asakusa, where it continued to exist through the end of the Edo period and into the Showa period. The main officially licensed red-light districts that were established in this way in various locations included, in addition to the three mentioned above, Shumoku-cho in Fushimi, Kitsuji in Narashino, Shibaya-cho in Otsu, Miroku-cho in Sunpu, Rokuken-cho in Tsuruga, Mikuni in Echizen, Ayukawa (Aikawa) in Sado, Takasu in Sakai, Chimori in Sakai, Iso-cho in Kobe, Murotsu in Harima, Tomo in Bingo, Miyajima in Aki, Tadanoumi in Sakai, Yunotsu in Iwami, Inari-cho in Shimonoseki, Yanagi-cho in Hakata, and Maruyama in Nagasaki, and the Dobo Goen (1720) lists a total of 25 such districts. Some of these had already fallen into decline in the early Edo period, and the names and numbers of pleasure quarters reported in various documents differ slightly from each other, and the origins of the establishment of many of them cannot be determined.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Otsu Shibayacho" is listed below.

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…江戸は徳川氏になってから1617年に傾城町の建設が認められたもので集娼制はいっそう明確であり，57年(明暦3)に浅草の新吉原へ移転したものが幕末を経て昭和まで存続した。このようにして各地に設置された公認遊郭の主要なものを示せば，前記3遊郭のほか，伏見撞木（しゆもく）町，奈良木辻（きつじ），大津柴屋（しばや）町，駿府弥勒（すんぷみろく）町，敦賀（つるが）六軒町，越前三国，佐渡鮎川(相川)（あいかわ），堺高須，同乳守（ちもり），神戸磯ノ町，播磨室津，備後鞆（とも），安芸宮島，同多太海(忠海)（ただのうみ），石見温泉津（ゆのつ），下関稲荷町，博多柳町，長崎丸山などで，《洞房語園（どうぼうごえん）》(1720)は計25ヵ所を挙げている。それらの中には江戸時代前期にすでに衰微したものもあり，諸書の伝える遊郭は地名，件数ともに多少の異同があって一致せず，設置の起源なども確定できないものが多い。…

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