The Nightless City: Geisha and Courtesan Life in Old Tokyo by J.E. de Becker

The Nightless City: Geisha and Courtesan Life in Old Tokyo

J.E. de Becker

496 pages first pub 1971 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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When The Nightless City was first published in 1899, it was deemed taboo in polite circles. It is now considered a valuable historical document—albeit still provocative—as a pioneering sociological study of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku: Tokyo's infamous ...

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