Vocabulary

hanging curtain used in place of a wall (Heian period)

cloth wrapped around the hips (esp. women)

stone for cutting one's pubic hair (in public baths)(Edo period)

U-shaped scissors with no place to put one's fingers; shears

U-shaped scissors with no place to put one's fingers

man of refined tastes; refined person; tea ceremony master

long and abundant moustache

men's hairstyle with small sideburns and a wide forehead (Edo period)

binkiri; Edo-period hairstyle with a lock of hair running down from the temples and hanging over the ears

hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk)

amateur wrestling on a street corner or in an empty field (esp. in autumn)

dancing on a street corner

go-between; intermediate; agent (e.g. for employing servants)

actor; actress; someone who works at a theater

machi-yakko; vigilantes who wore flamboyant clothing and formed gangs to fight against hatamoto-yakko (Edo period)

public bath with mixed bathing

monkey (esp. a gibbon)

Edo-period bathtub heated from below

Edo-period bathtub heated from below

steam bath (often using brine)

bath with a metal pipe

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