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A brothel

A brothel

The harimise (show windows) on the first floor suggest that the building on the right is a brothel, but the building on the left appears to be an inn. Details are not known.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number91‐1‐0]

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Yoshiwara

Yoshiwara

Yoshiwara in the mid-Meiji period. The first floor of whore houses had lattices as in this picture, and prostitutes waited for customers here, called Harimise. The elderly woman in the back is the Yaritebaba.==Date:Middle Meiji, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number43‐27‐0]

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