Female dancer - Onnaodoriko

...As a result, many private prostitutes appeared in various places, and it was not uncommon for some to operate openly and outnumber the public prostitutes. On the surface, the shogunate, which firmly maintained the public prostitution system, considered all private prostitutes to be hidden prostitutes, but even just the names that appeared in the laws included bathhouse girls, teahouse girls, tea-serving girls, waitresses, female dancers, cotton pickers, nuns, and geisha, which shows that their existence could not be overlooked. The actual names of private prostitutes, including secular names, were far more numerous, and were named after their official occupations or the places where they lived. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "female dancer" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…したがって各地に多くの私娼が出現し，なかには堂々と営業を続けて，公娼をしのぐほどのものも珍しくはなかった。表面上は公娼制堅持の幕府にとって，私娼はすべて隠売女（かくしばいじよ）であったが，法令に出てくる名称だけでも風呂屋女，茶屋女，茶立女（ちやたておんな），給仕女，女踊子，綿摘（わたつみ），比丘尼（びくに），芸者などがあり，その存在を見過ごせなかった事情を物語っている。実際の私娼の名称は，俗称を含めてはるかに多く，表向きの職業や居住地名にちなんで命名されている。…

※「女踊子」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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