Geishas and the Floating World: Inside Tokyo's Yoshiwara Pleasure District Junko Yoshida ISBN13: 9781389295539

ISBN13: 9781389295539

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Geishas and the Floating World: Inside Tokyo's Yoshiwara Pleasure District Junko Yoshida ISBN13: 9781389295539Geishas and the Floating World returns readers to a lost world of sensuality and seduction, rich with hedonism, abandon, and sexual and personal politics. Floating World refers to Japan's traditional Geisha pleasure districts, but also to the artistic and literary worlds associated with them. At the heart of the Floating World and the system it supported was an extensive network of talented courtesans and entertainers, typified by the still