Japan has a character that combines spear and shield.
The little girl dared to ask Sir, have you and I ever met somewhere?
This seemingly literary girl-like pick-up style is actually the language used by the Women of the Blue House in the Japanese shogunate era when they first solicited customers.
Every country has some history of wind and snow, veranda green house, beautiful people are unparalleled. In Constantine, Theodora took Justinian to briefly pull the dead lion out of the grave; in the ancient capital of Jinling, Qin Huai Bayan composed the love of his children when the country fell and the world was destroyed, but if you want to say that a country is greatly affected by fireworks and willow alleys, then even the transliteration of the country's name - neon is full of night on the island country is naturally difficult to escape. Today we will talk about the culture of wandering girls that is deeply rooted in Japanese history.
The sun is often obscured by clouds and cannot be seen, but nevertheless, as long as you look up at the sky, there will definitely be a time when the sun shines through the gaps in the clouds. Therefore, in order not to miss that moment, we must look up at the sky, straighten our waists, and be sure to live directly at the sun.
These words are spoken by the silver-haired natural curls in the Gintama Yoshihara chapter to the runaway girls who are on the dark side of the world while guarding the sun of Yoshihara. What, you ask such a sweet tooth man who is 24 hours a day and 16 hours a day in the lower limit of the brush, 7 hours in the nose and, picking the pinballs of the toes, why can he change the persona, that is, because there will always be an hour, he will become the white night fork in the war, a house of all things owner who strives to live with the belief that even in the era of abandoning the sword, only the righteous sword bound by the soul cannot be discarded!
The prototype of Yoshihara mentioned here is Yoshihara, the largest, most prosperous and most famous flower street in the Edo period. It is also a gathering place for Japanese tourist girls. When Japan was not yet a feudal state, the tribal families in various parts of Japan had a large number of private owners, and these private people had their own uses, some cultivating the fields, some serving and living, and some being good at performing. Because women were the majority of them, with the formation of a unified feudal state in Japan, the private people of the tribe were abolished, and they were able to parade and perform throughout the country, so they were called wandering women.
It was not until the middle of the tenth century that japan began to see the emergence of wandering women who paraded during the day and secret hair at night, and it was also in the Heian period when drunken dreams and deaths appeared in the area where travelers and merchant ships frequented the stage of the wandering women and the secret prostitutes who provided additional services.
During this period, many of the wandering girls who provided program performances also entered the banquets of the powerful because of their excellent artistic skills, and even some of their works were included in the "Ancient and Modern Waka Collection". If the performance of the wandering women is to show the femininity of women in gorgeous costumes, then the white beats are swords and blades, they wear the costumes of the nobles before adulthood - dried water, and perform in a male posture, presenting a unique gritty beauty. The most well-known representative of the white beat is probably the fleeting Yuan Yijing concubine Jing Yuqian like a meteor.
Rimi Ishihara's interpretation of Shizumi Mae
Whether it is a wandering girl or a white beater, they are still artists who focus on performance, although they may have a relationship with the powerful and chaotic, but this is still an admiration for people in high positions and graceful postures.
With the passage of history, the wandering girl has become more and more detached from its original meaning, but there are more and more dark hairs, and as a result, the wandering girl has begun to become another name for prostitutes.
After the Genrai Dynasty defeated the Hei family and established a new order of samurai rule in Kamakura, in order to manage the growing number of younu, he specially set up the position of Youjun Beidang to mediate disputes between younu. The Muromachi shogunate, which inherited the mantle of the Kamakura shogunate, initially abolished the position of YoujunBetsu, but after the Onin Rebellion, the shogunate became another idol of Japan's successor to the emperor. With the loss of power, Muromachido, who has always been known for his ability to control the world's money, has also fallen into the dilemma of not being able to make ends meet, and in order to alleviate the growing economic crisis, it is undoubtedly a good choice to tax the fireworks industry without protection. The Allure Bureau then came into being, and since then, it has also unveiled the historical curtain of the shogunate issuing official licenses to fireworks willow lanes and collecting taxes.
After the fall of the Muromachi shogunate, the act of taxing tourist girls did not disappear, and both Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu approved of this method of making money. In order to facilitate management, the Edo period not only had to pay a tax called the money, but the yunu town was also surrounded by high walls and deep trenches, like a heavily defended city within a city, and Yuko was the word used to describe this special situation.
The largest of all the yuku is Yoshihara of Edo, and its origins can be traced back to 1612, when the Edo shogunate, in order to increase the burden on local daimyōs and weaken their strength, and at the same time, in order to prosper their own base areas, led the implementation of the "Tenjin General Invitation" of Edo Castle (which forced the daimyo of the whole country to contribute money to participate in urban construction). Taking advantage of the opportunity of the world's universal invitation, the operator of the Yunu House, Shoji Shiemon, proposed to set up a special fireworks site in Edo to uniformly place and manage the tourists. This application was eventually approved by the shogunate, and in 1617, Yoshihara was officially completed. There are two sources of Yoshihara's name, one is that it comes from Yoshihara Jujuba, the birthplace of Shoji Eimon, and the other is because Yoshihara originally built the reed-covered reeds, and in order to symbolize auspiciousness, the homophone of the Yoshiji character was changed.
In 1638, the shogunate set up the famous Yoshihara Gate, which was isolated and guarded by special personnel, and the closed yukuo was formally formed.
Entrance to Yoshihara
In the early days, Yoshihara's customers were mainly powerful nobles and upper-class samurai, and the business hours were limited to daylight hours. Edo Yoshihara Yuko echoes with Kyoto's Shimabara Yuko and Osaka's Shinmachi Yuko, forming Japan's three "Flower Streets".
However, the unified management and official certification of Yoshihara did not form a economy of scale, which was rooted in the shogunate's strict institutional restrictions, the greatest impact of which was the prohibition of Yoshihara from operating at night. Yoshihara, who was in a stalemate, could not wait for the moonlight of the night, but waited for a fire. Sai Ow was not blessed to lose his horse, and it was because of the natural disaster that burned most of Edo that Yoshihara was reborn.
After the fire, the shogunate, which was busy rebuilding Edo, lifted restrictions on Yoshihara's business hours in order to win the financial support of the owners of the lady house for municipal construction, and Yoshihara moved to Sensoji Temple at the same time, and the area was doubled. It was also from this time that Yoshihara became a city that never sleeps.
However, at this time, Yoshihara still had a fairly heavy Heian period legacy. In Yoshihara, the higher status of the tourist girl is called Hanakuei, but there are also high and low points among the flower queens, the highest rank of the tourist is called "Taifu", followed by "Grid", again "Loose Tea", and then "Zashiki" and "Exhale". First-time visitors to Yoshihara can't go straight to the subject and go straight to Hanakuei, but have to be tested outside at The Yang house, a stopover that provides food and accommodation. The so-called assessment means that the guest needs to summon ordinary tourists in the Yang House, feast on the guests, show the financial resources to the boss of the Yang House, and the boss who secretly investigates will come out to communicate with the guests at the right time, and after having a certain understanding of the economic ability of the guests, he will invite the matching flowers for the guests according to the actual situation.
When the owner of Yangya informs the wandering girl, Hua Kui will dress up, he will wear a gorgeous zhen sleeve kimono, and take a large group of people and horses including two "zhen sleeve new creation" (usually a girl of about 15 years old, a future husband candidate), two Fantou xinzao (an old but still undeeminated, turned into a maid of honor) and a group of followers before and after the umbrella to open the road, this journey is the so-called "Hua Kui Road".
The guest sees Hua Kui is only the beginning, if Hua Kui is not satisfied with the guest, she can directly turn her head and flash people. Even if she was happy with her guests, she would only have a drink, and it would not be possible to talk at the first meeting in any case. And the second meeting that tourists are looking forward to is only a repetition of the first experience, even so the rich merchants are still happy, whether Hua Kui is satisfied with the guests, guests need to pay a lot of money as a face show fee for Hua Kui, from the husband of Hua Kui to the new construction of the umbrella.
It is not until the third meeting that Hua Kui will make a decision, if the taifu prepares chopsticks for the tourists, it means that the guests finally score a touchdown and can officially communicate with the taifu. Once the relationship between the guest and the husband is established, the boudoir becomes the second home of the tourist, and he must bear the life of the husband and take care of her personal maid. Living with Taifu in Yoshihara, he had to use money everywhere, not that the magnates could not afford it. At the same time, tourists and taifu are mostly referred to as husband and wife, and they must also abide by the rules similar to monogamy in the tour, if the Yoshihara nakato finds that the guests have also had relations with other taifu, it is inevitable that a profound lesson will be learned. In ancient Japan, folk women did not dare to demand the loyalty of their husbands, but in the famous Yoshihara, this turned out to be an unwritten iron law, and it was indeed a black mockery of Japan's so-called slow passion.
The source of this slow passion cultivation naturally comes from the value orientation of Japanese society in pursuit of elegance, but Yoshihara also plays an immeasurable role in it.
Not all of Yoshihara's girls are from poor backgrounds, but many of them are from rich families, daimyo, and even aristocratic families, and their families have suddenly changed. Regardless of origin, entering Yoshihara requires extensive and rigorous training. Before they really become flower queens, they must be familiar with poetry, taste calligraphy and painting, be proficient in blowing and singing, and be familiar with the tea ceremony flower path. The wandering girls come from the local area, but they need to abandon the characteristics of the place, the first thing to get rid of is the accent, they have to learn to use the common pronunciation of Edo to make elaborate words and sentences, of course, in addition to the skills that these noble women have, they also need to learn skills for special services.
It is precisely because Yoshihara has long been behind the sun to learn the skills belonging to the culture of the public secretary, creating a contradictory picture of them being a little talented in the wind and moon field and at the same time ashamed to wag their tails and beg for mercy. Yoshihara wanderers ignore power, and only know that the magnates who show off their power are often not favored by the wandering women. And it is precisely in Yoshihara that goods are not the standard for measuring the value of men, and the dignity of men comes from the admiration of wandering women. The general wandering women are heavy on wealth and light on righteousness, but the wandering women in Yoshihara are different, they are good at money, but they put qi and purity in front of the wealth (after all, they can see that the above has basically reached the standard in wealth), the so-called qi and purity, popular points we can call temperament, a kind of temperament, a temperament of manners, elegant manners. There are also many interesting stories between Yoshihara Andono, and they have also become part of later Japanese literature under the processing of the literati.
Date Masamune is known as the late arrival of the Sengoku, saying that he aspires to the world, but because he is too young to miss the best opportunity to compete for hegemony, he ends up fighting only a family business of 600,000 stones in Sendai. However, as the third generation lord of the Sendai Domain, Date Tsunade forgot the ambitions of his ancestors and fell deeply in love with Takao Taifu, who was the head of the three prostitutes of Kanaga. In order to redeem Takao," he accepted the extortion of the old bustard to pay the same amount of gold as the taifu weighed, and the final figure turned out to be 75 kilograms. People say that the IQ of people in love is seriously reduced, and the degree of decline is directly proportional to the degree of love, Date Gangzong, you think about a 75 kg woman can still become a flower queen for your love.
Although Date Tsunade eventually succeeded in redeeming himself for Takao Taifu and living together in Sendai without shame and shame, oh is the life of a fairy couple, but the shogunate is not a melon-eating crowd, just watch a hilarity. Unable to tolerate Date Tsunamune's prodigal son behavior in Yoshihara, the samurai leader forced him to give up his position as the lord of the Sendai Domain, and Date Tsunamune became a slight smile and a red face, losing his official position and abandoning his knight to carry the hand in the obsessive prodigal son world.
Just when everyone was obsessed with this slow passion, Yoshihara unconsciously changed, because of Yoshihara's threshold, a large number of civilians did not have access, where there is demand, there will be a market, this economic law is always forbidden by law, a large number of unlicensed temporary stalls began to appear in various parts of Edo. In order to bait these unpaid prostitutes, the shogunate carried out several large-scale anti-pornography campaigns, and the captured prostitute warblers were handed over to Yoshihara for placement. In contrast, the cost of taifu cultivation is high, there can only be one gold lord, while the warbler has a low input cost and can develop several customers at the same time. Since the middle of the Edo shogunate, samurai have been forbidden to enter and leave Yoshihara, resulting in a large reduction in the number of gold lords who can bear the high expenses of Taifu, and Yoshihara has gradually become the home of the warblers.
Floor plan of the late Yoshihara period
By 1752, Taifu had almost disappeared from Yoshihara, and the up-and-coming tea house replaced the previous Yangya as the starting point for Yoshihara. At the same time, due to the demise of high-ranking flower queens such as Taifu and Lattice, Sancha became the highest flower queen in Yoshihara, and its cost was naturally more popular than that of Taifu, who was high in the past.
Similar to the reduction of fees, the difficulty of asking for pleasure from Hua Kui is also greatly reduced, and due to the characteristics of merchants and civilians who do not care about elegance, the focus of entertainment in the tea house is also on money. At its peak, there were nearly 4,000 tourists working in the Yoshihara veranda, and they were divided into fourteen grades, the vast majority of whom were lower-level tourists, standing in the hall of the brothel for guests to choose, as long as there were guests who looked at them, they stayed with them for the night. The cost of the most advanced flower queen and the lowest level of the wandering girl can be a hundred times different. Other touring trails of the same period were not to mention more than 800 tourists in Osaka's Shinmachi Tour, and Shimabara Yukuo in Kyoto was even more famous for the entry and exit of the new selection group at the end of the shogunate.
The Japanese personality is full of contradictory two-sidedness, "Chrysanthemum and the Knife" has many restrictions on the differences between Eastern and Western cultures and the special era background of World War II, many conclusions still have obvious limitations of the times, but the Japanese written in the text are both the most stubborn group of people and the most fickle people, as long as the external environment changes, their most open governors give up their original habits, this argument I agree with. Whether it is the push of the ancient New Deal, or the Dahua Reform, whether it is the Meiji Restoration, or the MacArthur Reform, it is a major operation that is pushed from top to bottom, but the process has hardly been bloodshed, and it has been carried out smoothly and orderly. Another phenomenon that accompanies this principle is that Japanese people are extremely concerned about what others think of themselves, but they definitely do not easily express views that differ from others.
Between Yoshihara's wind and moon scene and the tedious process, between the love bought by money and the rules that cannot be broken, all the seemingly incompatible contradictions are the manifestations of this characteristic of Japan.
Although Yoshihara was closed after the war, the culture of yunu, which evolved with the history of Japan, is deeply written in the history of Japan. Along with the anime and games that flourished after the war, it became a Japanese label in the eyes of outsiders. The rise of anime culture, which seems to be young, and the culture of wandering girls, which seems to be adult," is also a kind of black humor that expresses the contradictory characteristics of Japan.
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