Takitsukegusa, Moekui, Keshisumi : an annotated translation
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- Stephanie Van Rentergem (UGent)
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- Although the organization of the licensed quarters in the course of the early Edo period gave rise to a remarkably rich fictional and nonfictional body of literature concerning the many and varied pleasures and perils of these places, most of the works in question unfortunately persist in depicting the licensed sex workers themselves as one-dimensional wicked harpies preying on hapless men. The author of the three works presented here, however, goes the opposite route, insisting that the women active in the licensed quarters are real human beings who think and feel, and that their willingness to provide their (often foolish or brutal) clients with what they want is at least as much due to their innate kindness as to an understandable desire for money to pay off their debts to their employers. This article seeks to present this highly unusual text to an English-speaking audience for the first time.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01HYGS6YGEKN7XE9RGR2RXHCYQ
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- Van Rentergem, Stephanie. “Takitsukegusa, Moekui, Keshisumi : An Annotated Translation.” JOURNAL OF ASIAN HUMANITIES AT KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, vol. 8, 2023, pp. 1–28, doi:10.5109/6788686.
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- Van Rentergem, S. (2023). Takitsukegusa, Moekui, Keshisumi : an annotated translation. JOURNAL OF ASIAN HUMANITIES AT KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, 8, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.5109/6788686
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- Van Rentergem, Stephanie. 2023. “Takitsukegusa, Moekui, Keshisumi : An Annotated Translation.” JOURNAL OF ASIAN HUMANITIES AT KYUSHU UNIVERSITY 8: 1–28. https://doi.org/10.5109/6788686.
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- Van Rentergem, Stephanie. 2023. “Takitsukegusa, Moekui, Keshisumi : An Annotated Translation.” JOURNAL OF ASIAN HUMANITIES AT KYUSHU UNIVERSITY 8: 1–28. doi:10.5109/6788686.
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- 1.Van Rentergem S. Takitsukegusa, Moekui, Keshisumi : an annotated translation. JOURNAL OF ASIAN HUMANITIES AT KYUSHU UNIVERSITY. 2023;8:1–28.
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- [1]S. Van Rentergem, “Takitsukegusa, Moekui, Keshisumi : an annotated translation,” JOURNAL OF ASIAN HUMANITIES AT KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, vol. 8, pp. 1–28, 2023.
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