Vocabulary

steam bath (often using brine)

bath with a metal pipe

splash; splosh

bathtub placed on the roadside and rented to customers

bathhouse used for prostitution (Edo period)

female assistant who scrubbed customers at public baths and also offered sexual services (Edo period)

female prostitute working at a bathhouse (Edo period)

female prostitute working at a bathhouse (Edo period)

prostitute from the Yoshiwara district of a fairly high rank (Edo period)

prostitute of the second rank (below the tayū; Edo period)

low class prostitute in Yoshiwara (Edo period)

type of brothel in Yoshiwara (Edo period)

Tanzenburo (famous early Edo-period bathhouse)

Katsuyama hairstyle; Edo-period woman's hairstyle made popular by a Yoshiwara prostitute called Katsuyama

rice-bran bag (used for scrubbing the skin when bathing)

slinging (on cranes, etc.)

female hairstyle starting from the Keicho period

coloured family crest (popular amongst people from Kaga)

lover (of a married woman)

buying the services of a prostitute

buying the services of a prostitute; whoring

petroleum wax

admonitory speech; words of admonition

pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure

type of Japanese woman's hairstyle using a hairpin (Edo period)

type of Japanese woman's hairstyle using a hairpin (Edo period)

chignon (in a Japanese hair-style)

back of the head; occiput

type of woman's hairdo (Edo period)

Edo-period hair style with inflated hair at the sides; lantern sideburns

type of Japanese hairstyle for young women (late Edo period)

maid working in the domestic quarters of a shogun or daimyo (Edo period)

maid working in the domestic quarters of a shogun or daimyo (Edo period)

female servant hired at a lady-in-waiting's own expense

young adult still living at home; dependent

yokohyōgo; yoko-hyogo; extravagant female hairstyle worn by oiran courtesans

obi with a different colour on each side

picture drawn on a folding screen

chignon resembling a seagull's spread tail feathers (Edo-period women's hairstyle)

first fish of the year