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Yokohama, amusement quarters (1880s)
Prostitutes in front of Japan's most famous house of prostitution known as Jinpuro (Nectarine) or No. 9, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, ca. 1880s. Rudyard Kipling, who visited Japan in 1889 (Meiji 22), mentioned Jinpuro in his 1894 (Meiji 27) poem McAndrews Hymn: Blot out the wastrel hours of mine Jane Harrigan's anyu Number Nine, the Reddick anyu Grant Road.
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12-03-2012
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