Okakura Tenshin believes that in this world, the most mediocre people are whitewashed and beautified, so that in the end, the things that turn sentient beings upside down and harm countless people are in addition to war, which is the wind and moon field. And Yoshihara is even more typical.
During the Edo shogunate period, Yoshihara was the only place recognized by the authorities as a kazezuki. The earliest Yoshihara was nothing more than a beach of reeds, and several of the blue buildings in Edo Castle were scattered scattered everywhere. In the twelfth year of Keicho, shoji, a merchant attached to the shogunate, made a proposal to Bongxing: to concentrate all the green buildings in one place, which would be convenient for management and purify the social atmosphere.
This application was approved by the shogunate five years later, and in 1617AD, a plot of land was carved out in the area of the present-day Town of Nihonbashi (1617AD) to establish the "Castle of Allure", which was called Habara because it was overgrown with reeds, and because "葭" was homophonous with "Yoshi" in Japanese, it was changed to "Yoshihara" by The Jili. The whole of Yoshihara is surrounded by a trench, and there is only one gate for people to enter and exit, which is said to be designed to "gather wealth", but in fact it is for the convenience of management and surveillance, that is to say, Yoshihara in Gentle Township is actually a prison.
Taio Yoshihara – the star of that era.
After the Ming Dynasty fire, Yoshihara was moved to the Nihon Causeway, which is now the Chijuku area of Taito-ku, Tokyo. The earlier Yoshihara, similar to the Jinling Old Courtyard of the Ming Dynasty, was a place where the elite of society were haunted, and the various entertainments of the shogunate's attendants, merchants, and farmers were basically arranged here. However, during the reign of the fifth-generation shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, as Edo Castle grew, various high-end restaurants and "Oka places" — illegally operated Kazezuki places — sprung up in every street of Edo Castle, and Yoshihara's customers were immediately diverted. At this time, the turtles and bustards who made a fortune from the flesh and skin career set their sights on the poor.
At that time, the population of Edo Castle was more than one million, and a considerable part of it was young men who had no inheritance rights and could not mix in their hometowns. These people could not start a family in Edo even if they worked hard, so they were often single-handed— these young men who were in a similar situation to the modern "North Drift" were not recognized by mainstream values at the time, and even the shogunate attendants who were known as people-oriented, such as the old Nakahoku Masamitsu during the four generations of shoguns, also lamented:
"Edo is a garbage dump for the nations!"
Desperate to work, but can not see hope, there is no future, most of these people are lonely inside, so even if it is a dew couple, it is also a comfort for these low-end populations, to earn some people's money is mainly to get "affordable". So the high-end Qinlou Chuguan is still a drunken gold fan and a thousand gold, but some cheap small shops can have fun as long as they spend hundreds of dollars, and naturally more and more poor people living in longhouses have begun to linger about it. One of the results of the popularization of the Wind Moon Field is the proliferation of jokers who lean on the door. According to the Ernsty (1772AD - 1780AD), Yoshihara's "lost women" have reached 2,500 people, almost all of them are ordinary vulgar fans, and as the star figure of Yoshihara before , Taifu " gradually disappeared. In the third year of Honghua (1846AD) at the end of the shogunate period, the number of people who practiced the flesh and skin career here was as many as Qiqian Yibaijiu.
So many practitioners will naturally lead to fierce competition, and using all means to squeeze the last hard-earned money of the benefactor is also the "professional ethic" of the vast majority of sex workers. Compared with various urban legends of Du Shiniang and Li Xiangjun, the first half of "The Biography of Li Wa" is the true face of this world of flowers and flowers.
This has nothing to do with the wind and moon - huh...
It should be known that the pink skeleton is nothing more than a rocha in disguise.
The kabuki script of the third generation of Kawatake Shinchi, "Cage Fishing Vase Flower Street Drunk", is based on a true story, telling the tragic story of how a good man was forced to a dead end by the wind and moon field.
Jiro Sano was a well-known spinning mill owner in the Takeshu area, he was honest and easy-going, and both his employees and business partners thought he was a perfect man – but he had a big flaw, that is, he was born with a blue birthmark on the right half of his face and was abandoned by his biological parents for this reason. Fortunately, his adoptive parents regarded him as their own and loved him very much, so Zuo Weimen was very grateful to his adoptive parents and repaid the second elder's kindness to himself by working hard and carrying forward the family business. When his adoptive parents died and Zuo Weimen took charge, he found that because his birthmark was too conspicuous, no woman liked him. Even by the age of thirty or forty, he had been on blind dates countless times, but he still failed. This should be explained that at this time, Zuo Weimen not only wants a love, but also has an obligation to marry and have children to repay his adoptive parents.
After not knowing that it was the first few failed blind dates, one of his peers as a matchmaker felt that he was too sorry for Zuoemon, so he invited everyone to drink flower wine at Hyogoya in Yoshihara. But during the banquet, Zuoweimen suffered an even bigger blow--even the women who had lost their feet did not want to accompany him, and it was not easy to have money-until a woman named Yuhe volunteered to accompany Zuoweimen.
This tamazuru was originally a prostitute who was sold to Hyogoya by the shogunate's law enforcement department for tax evasion. It can be said that she is the inferior of the lowly, and her tenderness is like water, which is only a scene, the main purpose is to use the financial resources of the left guard door to make herself a flower queen and export evil to the "sisters" who look down on her. Therefore, in this woman's place, every word and every action is a trap set for the left guard, and hyogoya's turtle and old bustard also feel that they have caught the wronged head, so they try their best to match the two. And Zuo Weimen, a greasy uncle who is almost a blank piece of paper in the affairs of men and women, immediately started to say as soon as he heard that a woman wanted to take the initiative to marry him. After that, he will indulge in the gentle countryside, and he will linger and leave his career out of the cloud of nine.
The false feelings of the jade crane, the flattery of the turtle and the old bustard, the suicide note of the martyrdom of the heart, and the boring and old tricks of the rich old knife to seize love are all routines set up to pit people's money. Zuo Weimen was ignorant, not only unaware, but also convinced of everything - until the end of the bed, he realized that his sweetheart was in a downfall except for turning his face and being ruthless...
Just as Tamaguru Rong Ren Hua Kui was holding a ceremony in Yoshihara Flower Street, Zuo Wei Men came holding the only relic left to him by his biological parents, a village demon knife, and in a split second, the turtle prince, the old bustard, the security guards, and the officials who came to stop the crime all chattered on the flower street, and finally Zuo Wei Men stabbed the jade crane in front of the Yoshihara gate and shouted at the officials who came around: "Let us go out, my wife and I are going to go out, she can now be my wife." "Then he was put on the spot. At this time, the cherry blossoms are like flying snow with the wind, as if they are playing with this beautiful and filthy world...
Furious turtle male.
Angry scumbag,
Yoshiwara Suikei: A Flower Blizzard.
This story is a vicious murder that really happened, and it is said that even Yuhe, ten people died in the brothel, ten officials, plus Zuo Weimen himself, a total of twenty-one people died. It was also shortly after zuoemon's blood flower street that the old rain new knowledge in Yoshihara spread the following golden rules:
1. Those who have wives and concubines should not stay in love with the scene;
2. The life of flesh and skin is a trade;
Third, even if the "copper pea" does not get along with someone for a long time, it is the best policy to be merciful everywhere;
Fourth, to learn to bargain, do not squander here;
5. When marrying a wife and taking a concubine, you must entrust a matchmaker;
6. Do not show the rich, one party is eaten;
Seventh, don't talk to the people on the wind and moon field, especially when you are shy, otherwise you will be killed by chickens to get eggs.